First define the area- are there drug dealers running up to cars (been there with a multifamily that I loaned money to a friend)? 

I am actually a Sales Manager for a manufactured home dealer in Southern California.

As soon as they ethically and legally help a seller avoid foreclosure, and do everything they promised to do on time, the seller will turn on them and start complaining about some perceived injustice, calling them a con artist.If you can live with being treated like garbage by the very people who would have been thrust out on the street like vagabonds in the middle of winter without two pennies to rub together were it not for you bending over backwards and risking your butt to save them with an overly generous arrangement that’s better than 99% of other investors would ever consider doing, then by all means, go ahead.If the irony of explaining something multiple times in clear, direct language, and having them read and initial every paragraph of a painstakingly understandable, notarized CYA letter, contract to SELL, and Lease Agreement, only to be threatened with legal action because they claim they didn’t know they were selling their house does not make you ashamed to belong to the same human race, then proceed.If you’re going to do it, just know the following things:1) No matter how intelligent, sensible, and responsible you believe a seller to be, they will mutate into something else entirely the very second you advance funds and solve their problem, to the same extent, and with the same speed and ferociousness as Bilbo Baggins in the first Lord of the Rings movie.2) You will go from benevolent savior to despicable con artist within 1 week after closing.3) They will almost always stop returning your calls once you have solved their problem, which makes collecting rent or qualifying them for a loan more difficult.4) They will understand the terms of the sale and lease with 100% certainty, until the closing has occurred, at which point something which scientists do not yet comprehend alters the chemistry of their brain and supplants their true memories with false ones.

I would like to learn a lot more about real estate investing as I plan to peruse a career in real estate or real estate finance.While my studies are my first priority, I also run a small business as a Dealer/Wholesaler of Rolex watches.

There’s a certain new AMG vehicle right now that dealers are selling over msrp, some 25-50k over msrp.

Another human is determining your properties value and it is completely subjective.

thats exciting news.. and makes sense.. since they dont have a dealer network brings them closer to the buyers as well.And I suspect Texans now will fall in love with the cybertruck since its Texas MADE  LOL

Another important factor which a broker-dealer would examine, and which you would do well to investigate, is how much time is left on the underlying lease.

Drop the social work mentality (been there, done that in a previous life and got burnt).I also believe it is human nature to feel that when they pay for something, they should get something in return.

Unfortunatly good flippers know to limit themsevelves to paint & carpet as much as humanly possible - that's where you create bang with your buck.