Otherwise you will be upside down in it and that is the wrong way to drive on this one way street!

I have a sweet little neighbor who lives across the street from us, who just lately has been returning our garbage can for us every Wednesday, after the garbage collectors pick it up from the curb.

Our areas is 40 blocks, with four busy streets as the boundaries.  

Once we started construction, we ran into several major problems including a steam pipe running through a kitchen wall that we were planning to open up, a huge leak inside a couple of walls that required the replacing of a whole exterior wall, damaged subfloors, major termite damage that resulted in a replacement of the sill plate in the master bedroom, needing to upgrade full electrical service (and split it into two separate panels) and a corroded water line that required emergency replacement all the way to the street in the middle of winter during record setting cold temps and a snow storm. 

Barely a week later, I meet 'wife's mother (who flew in from the midwest) at door who explained her daughter's boyfriend needs to stop lying to people, that his real situation is they're not yet married and were living in a converted garage and he left the kids home alone while wife was also at work and police were called because one of the kids somehow was found alone wandering the streets and subsequently placed in foster care til she (mother's mother) came to LA area to file for being their legal guardian in the interim.That LA Child Services would not release the kids back to the parents, but agreed to place the kids with a relative if the relative owned or had a lease on an apartment within Los Angeles County, so he found my Signal Hill 2-bedroom apartment (in my 2-family house) for her since they could not use the converted garage as a safe home for daughter's mother to take over the 'lease' on.  

I'm trying to buy rentals in a transitional neighborhood where some streets are rough and some are decent.

There's a private neighborhood park on the water at the end of the street but mines no on the water.

For those I would call Frank at Main Street Flooring in Santa Ana.

That brings more negative pressure on neighborhoods and the market in general but, more importantly, it cuts the heart out of the urban/suburban blight recovery (i.e. puts me out of business).Initially, I considered these investment companies as typical wholesalers (which are good for rehabbers because they bring them deals) but unlike "typical" wholesalers they want to make $10k to $15k on each house instead of $2k to $5k a "street-level" wholesaler would expect to make.

Rich, I know you know what you're doing but that must be a very large company if there are no subs.Here, my last lot development had;The engineers as one entityThe electric utility contractorsThe gas company contractorsWater and sewer contractorThe utility company inspecting with feesA demo contractor for an existing buildingA survey companyPaving contractor, streets, curbs and guttersWater retension and landscape contractorTelephone and cable contractorsEven DNR had fees to an engineerAll of that before a shovel was turned on any lot.Now, I did do a minor subdivision for industrial where everything was already there, only a survey was needed and an engineer.