I start off by saying, "How much money do I need to make to make a flip worth my time and effort?"  

I got my start in 2017 doing what you tried, STR arbitrage near Disneyland.

As soon as we had the money saved and the opportunity presented itself, we jumped on the chance to start this journey!

I ended up getting about $20k back at closing (on a purchase) and used that to start my renovations on the vacant units.

I recently retired from the military and now I am ready to start Chapter 2.

I’m a  new landlord so I don’t know where to start. 

I live in Southern California and want to start investing in property and grow that, I only have $30k-$40k what are my best options?

I do plan on investing by next year 2025, but I do want to increase my knowledge a little bit more and possibly find a mentor and work with one just to get my feet through the door, and start investing by next year. 

I want to start a discussion re the due on sale clauseWe are seeing more issues re lenders calling notes due. 

Of course one can hire professionals with those skill sets, but for me and my family living in a new city where we didn't know many people, managing and budgeting for large scale renovations would have been a really difficult task when we were starting out our real estate journey while also navigating full time work outside of real estate simultaneously.