Heres what i did, and i could have took the long way and i havent had any deals yet but ill break down my trial and error and the method i feel will work best for me.first, i searched zillow for homes that are selling for low cost, found the owners and mailed yellow letters of course-the problem with this is, a lot of these homes still have loans on them and probably bank owned already, the owner still lives there, theres already a realtor on the job, just way too many obstacles, i dont expect to get any calls from those letters but you have to start somewhere.next, i started searching on auction sites for homes that did not go up for auction yet or the auction expired-again, the problem with this is the homes are 9/10 bank owned. while some of them are foreclosures theres still extra loops to jump through.I considered buying lists of vacant homes and stuff but i am the most frugal person you will ever meet lol, its not that i cant afford to buy a list, its just that i know theres a different way and plus whoever made those list had to have someone else generating that list for them.

I left my FT job and needed (fairly) quick income.

I don't think I'll make this months as I'll be on travel for my day job but I'll look for others to attend.

We typically buy C class stuff, and I constantly hear discussions about how C class won't be affected by all the new construction, because "they're not building anymore of those," or "where do you think everyone has to move when jobs go away," and any number of other conversations.  

I want to pay for my education, not through GURU's but through on-the-job experience.  

If you have an area where labor is plenty and job is scarce, you are more likely to get it at 50/sf, but I wouldn't exchange that much headache (a year?)

If company is well organized, it has a regular schedule of communication,monthly reports, for instance.

When you change jobs, you will then have a nice sum of cash in a tax-sheltered retirement plan that you can move to a self-directed IRA or Solo 401k.  

The owners had open houses scheduled on the upcoming Saturday and Sunday and accepted our offer on the Saturday night and cancelled their open house for the following day.

But I provide a service to my clients of keeping an eye on things for them such as making sure the property manager is doing their job, that the construction they paid for is getting done and done right (I have been doing construction myself since I was a kid and learned from quality craftsman), that they are buying the right investment for the right price, etc.I hope this helps all of you as I am sick and tired of seeing people get scammed or unhappy because they purchased the wrong investment.