You're not in a bad position, you just need to optimize a little.First, you are letting a guy live at your house for under market AND you're paying utility AND you're paying for gardening work.  

Furnishing the home, optimizing your listing, and setting up the systems I listed above (or others if you choose).Once you have everything in place, the actual time spent is pretty minimal.

Select your State, select the County you want, then below county, use the pulldown menu to select Investor.That search will show you every property.To bid on them, you need a HUD authorized real estate Brokerage.

When you go to Redfin.com, on the home page in the upper right hand corner there is a drop down menu titled "Tools".

Proceed with what I call cynical optimism.  

I would agree that starting in CA is not optimal, and Midwestern states would be a better place to start.

Those alerts can also be seen if you mouse over the "Inbox" on the upper right menu bar and scroll down.

A lot depends on what you're trying to optimize for.  

Those alerts can also be seen if you mouse over the "Inbox" on the upper right menu bar and scroll down.

Optimizing their willingness to pay me is part of customer relationship management.