Another question might be what features were neutral, or made no difference in the decision making to buy.Good Luck!

It sounds like you've made great progress in building your real estate portfolio, especially with the support of your grandfather.

A lease was signed on 1/4/24 but no payments have been made by HUD yet this year.

I'm originally from San Francisco and found it difficult to find anything that made sense to me in CA.

Now I am the landlord and live 2 hours away and switching the payment to be mailed to me by money order or personal checks.

Starting my wholesale journey right now :)I have some experience in buying real estate for rentals and flips.As a rule I made for myself, I won't work in areas where I know crime levels are high and are generally low income areas, becasue I know how hard it is to sell them (if its a fix & flips) or rent them.Nowadays I'm looking into starting my wholesale business and was curious about that...Does it matter for the cash buyers?

I've almost hit 2 years job experience for a conventional loan, I have qualifying credit, I've made good contacts with realtors and lenders from my Admin Assistant job in the loan world, and I've saved up enough cash for 3.5% down for SoCal SFR pricing (not enough for closing cost or commissions yet).

I recently listened to a real estate rookie podcast in which the new investor was looking for a similar property and mailed out letters to specific properties in a specific neighborhood in order to find off market deals. 

@Andrew Shumate made good sense. 

He opted to do things his way and not doing what we requested for him to do in a certain order.