I'm a licensed life agent myself in CA (OK68442), and have a couple clients that do fund their RE purchases with life insurance loans and its a fantastic product for that. 

As I was doing my research there were couple articles as well as posts where it stated that buying a foreclose property for novice is not a good choice since there are many situations such as liens can make your deal go south.

From what I was told (and mostly able to confirm) the couple who ended up buying this house was looking at another house in the same neighborhood that was also a flip.

Chris, what would be couple scenarios of "whatever I want" after purchasing the notes? 

If they saw a couple cockroaches or spiders I’d advise them to keep the place clean and get some bug spray from Home Depot.

I have a couple of properties that were part of larger trades and their attributes are different than SFR.

Is there one (or a couple) you would recommend?

Not to mention all the realtors, in my area there are a couple of realtors that spend $100k/month to stay on top.

That way, I will have a couple (3-4) of lenders that I can shop around for the best rates, after the rehab is done.I know the lenders will want to pull my credit score/report.

I have some experience in project management for a couple of smaller retail locations (one 3,500 sq ft and one 2,100 sq ft) which were complete renovations.