For example, if there's a nice 600sf 1bed/1bath cottage on 0.5 acres, with no restrictions, what's a way to measure this vs. an identical piece of land on the same street with a house of similar construction/quality but only it's 2bed/2bath and 1800sf?

My questions are as follows: how do I verify their identity?

These clients tell me exactly what they want and i just make it happen.So, focus on whatever affordable part of the country you want to own properties in and start looking on zillow for a mature experienced-in -investing broker or consultant and build a relationship one property at a time.It's wonderful if you happen to have even one friend in the town that can ride-by potential properties in the beginning to confirm it's what you want!

(Identity theft?)

Or, if I wanted to pull out just $20k to do an identical deal, would that be an option? 

,Perfect, I appreciate you guys pointing me in the right direction.I know @Jocaro Dodd asked almost an identical question, but is there a particular reason why you would mail market to these leads, rather than calling them directly to begin with?

Being a Condo, what have other identical ones in the same complex SOLD for recently?

Most of these are short term deals with maturity dates of 6 months to a year.

The value of investing in income properties in CA, since cash flow is non existent, is appreciation (for the most part) making maximum leverage even more attractive for those with deep pockets since the appreciation is identical regardless of how much dead equity you carry.If you have 500K in dead equity using a HELOC is the e best route to take that will actually force your money to earn it's keep.

Identical program (probably same promoters) as the so called "Yancey training".