SEM, Google Ads, social media marketing, blogs, specific targeted landing pages, email marketing, real estate site listings can all be used to further enhance deal flow.

Second to that I'd consider the vacation property financing approach, but I pick that second because as you said the rates will be higher which then puts more pressure on revenue and reduces slack for unexpected expenses.I've never used hard money but my mental model is that it's typically used for short periods with a clear exit, for example doing a fix-and-flip. 

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Going through it will mean getting comfortable with learning or relearning and enhancing many skills like marketing skills and techniques, communication skills, negotiation skills, resource management skills, project planning, mandatory time management skills, and developing and refining an infectious positive attitude through everything.

@Kevin IzquierdoYou have to remember that the people you are talking to are also the people most likely to buy stocks at the top of the market (because they were paralyzed with fear while the market was rising) and sell at the bottom of the market, (for fear of losing any more money.)Some people will never get out of their 9-5 mentality.  

I am not sure when I fully embraced this mentality as a guiding principle in my life, but I know it came at a young age, and am confident it is the result of attempting to emulate my father, a 28-year career military officer.

Yes, there are a lot of investors in CA, and unfortunately the heard mentality of following gurus means that most absentee/foreclosure/tax/etc owners get a bunch of mostly the same yellow letters.

Clement Stone and "Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude." by Napoleon Hill & W.

Symptoms are not just respiratory, but involve the entire body system, causing minor and major illnesses, minor to major damage to one, several, or all parts of a body, including mental/emotional/social and financial.

So I would recommend you quit wasting time with posts here and instead seek out mental health therapy and a decent lawyer.