Hi BiggerPockets, My name is David Krenz, I moved to Los Angeles three years ago from Nashville, TN and worked in the Coldwell Banker Beverly Hills office with numerous multi-million-dollar transactions in the Westside of LA including Beverly Hills, The Bird Streets, West Hollywood.

With a million bucks you could buy up most of the neighborhood - if it were for sale.A wild dream though would be to buy the whole neighborhood up, fix it up and then flip it off dramatically improving the quality of residents and values of the homes in the process.Question is - does anyone have any experience doing this sort of thing - taking on an entire neighborhood as a pet (yet profitable) project and flipping the whole thing over the course of years or a decade?

Unless you have some serious money and shake ALOT of hands, that might be abit far fetched but its all about getting noticed internationally.

Its an awesome city.. but its huge 16 million people.. so chance of being in the wrong spot is quite remote. 

I answer lot's of questions for my clients but they are buying 3,6,10 million commercial properties and higher.On the lower end of residential and not commercial with sales prices I can see brokers or agents not answering 100 questions for sub 150k investor purchase properties.

While California gained 3.1 million people since 2007.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/01/heads-up-homeowners-mortgage-interest-deduction-on-trumps-chopping-block.htmlThe mortgage interest deduction is already capped at loans up to $1 million if you're married and filing jointly, and at $500,000 if you file separately.

Professionally, I'm a qualified insurance broker, though outside of profession i'm an aspiring amateur jazz guitarist and muay thai fighter.Let's see what comes out of this crazy real estate dream:-Real estate goal: From scratch build a 1.5 million pound real estate portfolio in London (UK)  and England.Timeline : within the next 5 years.Strategy: A) Type- Multifamily units,  apartments B) Tactic- Buy and Hold, House Hacking C)Financing- Conventional mortgages, partnerships, private money As of now I'm currently seeking mentors and experienced investors (preferably local) to bounce ideas off and possibly partner with moving forward.I am also working on improving my ability to analyze and select good deals on a consistent basis.Look forward to interacting with you all in the near future,Many thanks,Mayo

Brian Pleshek thanks ah million for the advice.

Next is buy a million.