I live in CA to and alike you wanted to achieve financial freedom and with a couple of years of hard work I have been able to.Would love to help you in any way that I can!

1) 3 people family, couple with a 10 year old son, currently live in CT.

There are a couple of things that are left to complete, that we can find someone else to take care of.

Ripped through Rich dad poor dad and then a couple of Brandon Turners books.

Or if it is move-in ready, refi after you buy (and after any seasoning period required by the bank.A couple of things you'll want to look into first:  Make sure your debt to income ration is so high that a bank won't do a refi. 

Some offer more if your married depending on the bank you finance with. 

I have a couple.

I do not own any investment properties at the moment so going through the offer process was a learning experience and I know now of a couple more things to take into account.

Within the past 2 weeks, most of the pre-foreclosures I had contacted now appear in the "auction" status with dates set in the next couple of weeks.

My last 2 were both rented when (1) we still had finishing work/backspash tiling to do. (2) we had just sheetrocked.It all depends on the potential tenants "vision" and you should be able to assist that by having a flooring sampling ready.In the one, I was bringing sheetrock out to the dumpster when an older couple approached me and asked what I was doing.