about the landlord's right to entry.  

Consider also your cash on hand or equity position, MF is always higher entry point, especially to a newbie without experience.

I'd flip your thought process and start with the kind of properties that you want to own first and see what the "cost of entry" is for those properties after the fact.  

It's unlikely that you will make the same base pay at a new entry level job in the real estate industry. 

That the property inside is abandoned, you could agree to give her like 50 bucks if she'll meet  you.Otherwise tell her you'll have to gain entry by doing an eviction action because that's the legal way.Not worried about legal and if she'll be back..

I live in Woodland Hills so the cost of entry is very high in the Los Angeles area.

Seems like the CA and north eastern states could present some problems with the cost of entry into the real estate game.

Thanks for that @Peter Bowen everyone has a different way of investing and what works for one does not for another,  I keep my properties maintained well, plan for the future when doing initial rehabs,  and use a professional manager, we also tend to charge premium rents, and allow pets, most of our tenants have stayed for many years to this point, and take pride in the home they rent from us, there are exceptions, and the rougher properties that cash flow better can come with more challenges, but the entry point limits my overall risk as generally I can pay back the initial investment in 5 years or less, they are mostly SFR's so i have a large buyer pool if I want to exit. at some point I will get board with these, and move to A-B multi, then probably NNN Commercial, my only thing with deals like yours is, with Debt I dont see how they cash flow.  

However, with there being so much space in So Cal, there are a ton of "edge of civilization" type of towns that are lower cost to entry and in 10 years' time are completely surrounded by other cities.

As far as topics are concerned, perhaps we should initially stick to entry-level issues, such as work balance, realistic expectations, motivation and accountability.