What demographics you are looking for in a market will largely be determined by what type of investing you are looking to do, and what "success" looks like to you.

The reason I mentioned getting a real estate license is I thought I needed that or some type of real estate background to get my DRE MLO license in California.

Has anyone gone through a similar situation, have any tips, and recommendations on an accountant/CPA that specializes in these types of situations?

At this point I want to just get rid of this property.https://www.zillow.com/homes/1014-Barcelona-Dr-Weidman,-MI-48893_rb/77814307_zpid/ What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

EMD is a type of risk capital.

We got rid of all of the problem tenants and with the updated property were able to attract a better quality tenant that takes better overall care of the property What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

You can use a Land Trust to hold properties in California without paying the $800 fee or check into a Wyoming type LLC that does the same thing.Good Investing...

what type of creative financing ? 

Used for Airbnb What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

However, being the market is the way it is in Denver, I rarely see "We Buy Houses" type of signs, so just wondering if wholesaling is dead in Colorado because prices are so high?