Developer- Can you take a Mental beating and view each obstacle as just another hurdle. 

The homeless/drug/mental illness problem is severe right now but these sorts of issues do come and go over time.   

I have spent my life under the rule of the "Poor Dad" mentality, always bearing witness to the financial struggles of my family and watching my parent's marriage get torn apart. 

The renters' mentality is real.......

@Kevin IzquierdoYou have to remember that the people you are talking to are also the people most likely to buy stocks at the top of the market (because they were paralyzed with fear while the market was rising) and sell at the bottom of the market, (for fear of losing any more money.)Some people will never get out of their 9-5 mentality.  

(use the same mentality from the paragraph above, use your mind more than your wallet)I hope this helps. 

I am not sure when I fully embraced this mentality as a guiding principle in my life, but I know it came at a young age, and am confident it is the result of attempting to emulate my father, a 28-year career military officer.

Yes, there are a lot of investors in CA, and unfortunately the heard mentality of following gurus means that most absentee/foreclosure/tax/etc owners get a bunch of mostly the same yellow letters.

Mentally and physically I am drained from all this.

I believe that mentality comes from the Guru's "Find a good deal and the money will folow" While building my buyers list I will call the "we buy houses" bandit signs in the neighborhoods I'm interested in and find that many have yet to do their first deal!