While cleaning out my junk email box after work, I stumbled upon an email from a HUD representative advertising a lottery through the Good Neighbors Next Door Program.

I believe for a raffle you have to register as a lottery.

Hell, I'll even take a lucky lottery number at this point lol.

Sorry, can't be helped, and look how reasonable his labor costs are...If you get into rehabbing distressed properties with your own money, borrowed money, private money, lottery winnings, whatever, you have to learn the business or, one way or another, you're going to be paying people who do.

If they meet all your criteria, yes - and then run out and buy a lottery ticket while you're on a roll.

It's the crazy lottery!

Is it worth the hassle to enter the lottery? 

The McCullars and their lottery winnings! 

OMG way too many off comments here, as San Francisco rentals are in a different stratosphere of crazy  1- your tenants are most likely under rent control (unless you hit the lottery and your bldg. was built after June 1979).

Sure some take off quicker than others, but that doesn't mean you will OR you won't.Wholesaling is not quick money.Flipping is not quick money.Landlording is not quick money.Note investing is not quick money.Buying tax leins is not quick money.Private/Hard money lending is not quick money.Etc, etc, it's all a business & if you treat it like a lottery ticket it probably won't work.If you don't have $900.00 for a course, I'm sorry you have bigger problems.