I was thinking about selling Commercial RE, however; I can't afford to do it because the investment business is more lucrative and I don't want to spend the time to BUILD an agent business. 

Now, here’s another great piece of advice for median rent and income analysis:Make sure the median income is 3x the median rent (or the rent you want to charge).It is highly recommended you follow this advice because you wouldn’t want to have a tenant who cannot afford your property.Next, analyzing the crime rate of an area is also a crucial step of market analysis.

Just speaking generally, $2,000 is not nearly a big enough budget to build anything useful.I find it hard to believe there isn't already a well developed scheduling/calendar SaaS product that someone else has already developed that you could pay an affordable monthly subscription.Here's 3 I found just doing a google search ranging from $8 to $50 per month.https://calendly.com/https://simplybook.me/en/https://acuityscheduling.com/s...Sometimes it's easier (and cheaper) to just pay someone else a monthly subscription instead of trying to re-create the wheel.

Since this is an urban area, it probably reduces affordable housing, which is the opposite of what advocates want.2.

I have talked to many people who I know about their financial situation and they are getting loans on homes they can't afford (unfortunately far too prevalent in the military). 

My question (more like frustration 😤) is around why it's practically impossible to build a successful and scaleable system around wholesaling commercial property here in LA.

@Dylan DomingueFirst things firstMost 22 unit motels are management intensive as the revenue is too small to afford a top manager or a hotel operator.

Initially, my goal was just to house hack so I could afford my own home, but as I did more research I discovered the world of real estate investing.

Fixed Income residents can lose their Homes because they can no longer afford the Taxes and Insurance.

As an investor myself I have been pleasantly pleased as well as very frustrated  by time frame and the outcome of appraisals.