A coworker of a family member approached me about buying a house and renting it to her with a lease option as she has bad credit (but a good job).

If one of us loses job, we will be under a lot of pressure and even may need to sell it - or we need to sell our only investment property a multifamily in Boston to save it.

There are working families getting homeless shelter assistance because their jobs aren’t enough to qualify for housing.

You need to join an agency, which means you are taking a job and you would be expected to perform (sell).

Buy and hold is a great strategy right now for beginners if they have a day job.

I had the opportunity, when I first started wholesaling, to quit my job on the back of my first deal which netted me 8 month’s salary.

I am not familiar with CA laws but NY is very stringent so the price sounds about right for the type of job you're doing.

The school that offers the course does not guarantee any job or job placement after completing the exam.One alternative would be to acquire textbook materials for property management courses and then read them on my own. 

You should start with a general idea of price point and strategy, which should get you narrowed down a bit, then you'll want to look at job and population growth (City-Data.com) and get a feel for each of the markets, once you have selected a market you can go a bit deeper into sub-markets and unique details of the market as a whole.

"filling out paperwork" is traditionally a job for somebody with a license.