But as far as finding a mentor that is really half the battle that itself is huge!

A hard money loan is going to be your easiest course provided you have the down payment required to acquire one.  

Half were fine with it, fine were against it.

Hello again everyone, I am still new at the real estate investing game and have a passion for real estate. My goal is to buy two rental properties a year for the next 5 years. How do investors buy quickly like this? I...

SoCal is not a place for cashflow unless you hold a very long time and even then....i live down the hill from you and invest in AZ, KC and Indy for that reason.your best chance in SoCal would be to buy a dumpy duplex to live in and rent out one half. that would allow you to build up sweat equity as you would fix up your half then switch sides and repeat. you could raise rents and likely sell for good profit (depending on market of course) upon exit....or just use increased rent to have a nicer unit paid down fastergood luck

Hello my name is Larry, new to BP and about a month and a half into Real Estate Wholesaling, here to learn and apply this knowledge when i'm wholesaling.

The house is usually extremely dirty after one year - with the same air filter installed -(after I show them how to change it at the lease signing, and it is spelled out to change four times per year), weeds in the yard ( too hard to pull them out as they become big I assume), many times- cars parked half on the grass ( we always have two car driveways and garages - and it is spelled out in the lease not to do this), etc.

what to do with it? have seen homes on similar size lots go for around 150k. the land is just sitting there for several years going on decades. the shrubs seem to be well on their way into growing into trees; is there...

My budget is a half-million dollars and I intend to owner-occupy this property.  

I like postcards because they cost about half the cost of letters, so we can send twice as many for the same $.