I was graduating college and I either had the choice to start my own business or get a job.I really didn’t want to work for anyone else.

I've spent most of my adult life fixing things and its what I enjoy doing and want to help someone else out in their real estate journey as well!  

In that case his $5K is earning him $50/month for 6 months and then he gets his $5K back, he earned $250 or 5% in 6 months on his $5K, that's better than anywhere else he could have put that money. 

Converting to storage- I guess you would need someone to be the gate keeper and you would also have to fence the place in to keep people out and protect whatever is parked there. 4.) farmland- In santa cruz this would be gobbled up as a hobby farm but out here in the valley 2 acres is not really something a farmer wants to mess around with in regards to farmland.

If you are a real estate investor somewhere close to my area and have quite a bit of experience in rentals and anything else in real estate(I want to learn as much as I can) I would love to take you out to lunch or any where and talk about real estate!

I’m not really sure what else to do.

If anyone else is interested, you can see them here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/4837/43935-everything-you-want-to-know-about-buy-and-hold-real-estate-presentationIt's tougher to find such deals in this market and you'll have to dig more (probably do some direct-to-seller marketing), but there are always great deals out there.

Her mother is in the hospital and can’t move or talk but the Daughter wants to put the home in her name and sell it to me or else the home will be foreclosed .

It is tough you might just keep them in mind if you don't find anyone else in the next month

Get comfortable with how the numbers work then it gets easy to mess w/ them to see the impact of different scenarios.