But also has a few big business and a few good schools.

Not knowing you're exact area or price point, I would recommend looking at multi units in San Pedro (the last affordable beach left in the west side), Long Beach (heavy rental market), Fullerton (great schools and universities), Monrovia (the next Pasadena), Korea Town (the new echo park), mid-Wilshire (excellent rental market), South Adams (the current hot spot for flips), Cypress (near Oxford Academy), Duarte (the next Monrovia, stay above foothill).

Pretty nice house in a good neighborhood right behind and down the street from the high school also there's a house being built right next door.House is in pretty good condition new roof less then 3 years old and the foundations good.

Are you renting yearly, monthly (schools may not be year round).

However, as I learned in business school, direct mailing is a low percentage play as the standard return rate is only 1-3%, including negative replies. 

UCLA Anderson School researchers said back in 2015 that SoCal was about 50% into it's appreciation phase and expected a return to more normal appreciation after that point.

@Michael Delpier i like your response, and same goes for me.being a 43 young male i feel that doing the job that i had ( transport truck driver), i wasn't contributing to my community, or using enough quality time with my family.Building my real estate has lead me towards becoming a real estate sales rep and not having to work 16+ hour days , my wife is currently involved in this path with me and now my siblings are also getting interested in how our path is planned out, instead of working for someone else, work for yourself, i always remember this statement that i heard when i was in high school."

I went to infantry school there.I am a lender here in Chattanooga.  

There is a way to count schooling as part of your "work history" if you transition right out of college into your prospective line of work because then the lender could state a case and use that history and your "future projected income" for qualification.

I am doing this for them, so that we can be together as a whole and I can raise them myself rather than how society seems to be raising kids these days with television and school system.