Find a local agent in your market, and ask him to add you to his daily listing for that niche/criteria in that market. 

I have been soaking in all I can on real estate investing and am on BP daily.

Who is there on a daily or hourly basis?

You should check out the post on here titled "The Dirty Truth about the Guru Programs"  to put it all in full context, though.I'd suggest going through the podcast archive and finding someone whose lead generation methodology sounds like something you can and will execute on a daily basis and then start creating your own system for executing that methodology.

You can never talk to a decision maker and they are always ask for more stuff......If you need to know sellers balance (the amount the bank will open at), read the legal notice, it is usually required that they put that information in a newspaper, usually like the Daily Record  or in the legal section of the Business Journal.If you are going to get in this more actively, you should subscribe to the appropriate news papers.  

Back when looking at it, I knew the bedroom walls were textured but not that the thing is mine and I've been in it daily for the last few weeks, I'm realizing I absolutely hate the textured walls.  

I would run then nonstop while doing chores around the house n such.

that would be your daily penalty for missing completion dates.  

Not to mention just the daily costs of taking care of such a large family on Southern California.

I would add all of these to your to favorites page and read them daily.