At the time they targeted Asian massage parlors, cigarette sellers, night clubs that had customers deemed criminal (read: minorities), medical marijuana clinics and (post 2008) bank owned properties that had been foreclosed. 

Get a massage from an island babe.

You need to massage your criteria a little bit to get in the game while pricing is good and debt is cheap.

The last thing I need to do as a first time investor is massage the #s to get a house and end up losing money or doing it for free...I will hang and there and keep making offers...I'm going to try to get my real estate license in the next few months so I can start viewing houses on my own time and getting access to the MLS to streamline the process...Right now I wait on input on recent comparable sales, wait to view the property and wait to make the offer...it just takes too much time...I feel if I was an agent I would be viewing 15+ homes a week and making several offers per week.

These are both extremely useful sites as the state site can forward you to numerous places like the dbpr (department of business and professional regulations) where you can do professional license searches, (for example, a great place for locating a seller that has a professional license, i.e. a massage therapist or a hair stylist, or a real estate agent, they all would be listed here)  You can also find the link to your Secretary of State, also a great place to skip trace if your seller/buyer is an investor or biz owner.  

I just bought my new Tempur Pedic stay cool bed with the motorized adjustable foundation and massager............ : )

He then drafted a series of contracts for different scenarios utilizing, and massaging, the selected components.

Massaging them won't make them change.Don't fall victim to "gottadoadealitis".

Trust me, I have first hand experience with realtors "massaging" sales data, so just make sure what you are looking at is accurate.

But off the beaten path is mostly salons, spas, massage, hotels, million dollar condos, office,....