Here is my take on it- I feel like it is something transitory. the rules around it were very relaxed in the beginning, but now yo ucan see as it gains popularity, the govt wants to be involved in what you can/can't do.

Also I think it will be advantageous to pick an office that is fairly popular in the area. 

Those have been very popular markets with our investor clients.

As far as what areas to look at, there's a lot of chatter about a lot of popular markets out there right now.

I guess this could be the competitiveness of the market combined with flipping being so popular again but I don't see how these guys could be getting many repeat buyers with the deals I'm being sent.

But as more young people enter the market it will be interesting to see if the numbers show smaller houses becoming more popular.

I am sure there are others, the sector is getting popular.  

The Lease Option Assignment - Cooperative Assignment - Wholesaling Lease Options Business model is popular when credit is tight, so getting a license to take over a listing that is not selling and working with other Realtors is a great idea.I have been doing Lease Options since my first in 1985, I bought w hard money and sold on a short lease w option, netting $16K.Many things have changed in the lease option - seller financing space.

It seems like there would be many opportunities to take some of the older condos/awkward layouts and have a fair amount of potential for flip profit but it seems that this is a far less popular choice.When you compare equivalent (size and relative location) condos from older buildings to new builds there is a MASSIVE price discrepency: many new builds starting at 300k in the core with older similar sized and neighborhood properties going for less than 200k (but very dated).

Can't quite get my head wrapped around Lawndale.It is very well located - bordering both Redondo and Torrance which are affluent neighbourhoods, and it isn't particularly a big area, so I would have expected it to be perhaps more popular with the 'overspill' from the beach towns who can no longer afford it - but it appears that is far from desirable for home buyers (plenty of renters) despite property values shooting up last year or so.