I've been in LA for the past 7 years (UCLA & work) and my background is in finance.

Some people come from money, some people had a previous career in finance and know lots of investors, some people are really handy and save a killing on fixing things. 

I hate to be negative but how many billions in fines do banks have to pay for ripping off their "partners" before those partners should start thinking negatively about them?

Their analysts are usually MBAs in finance who graduated at top of their class and have been trained to use and understand the most sophisticated financial modeling theories and techniques.The winning bidder pays for and gets ownership of these 1,000 NPNs.

This is a very well to do area, you must have connections in finance realm that might be able to get creative with the numbers, or personal connections that would be willing to ease the burden for you over the short term and get a cut of your profits on future flips where you stay within your profitable sweet spot.Your other set of possibilities are legal, and that is really something you need a good PA real estate attorney to pour over your loan docs to see what your options are. https://www.foxrothschild.com/gregory-j-kleiber/

Are there special financing sources that could make it worthwhile to set aside some of the residential units for low income housing or put solar on the rooftops or . . . ?

I’m working in finance in Carmel originally from Chicago.

One of the biggest mistakes I have seen less experienced investors do when choosing their first one or two flips is thinking they can save a lot of money by doing a lot of the repair or upgrading working on their own compared with paying a licensed contractor to do the work and mainly because a person doing the work themselves are not as experienced at doing good quality work and frequently will take a lot, a lot, a lot longer to get the work done and if you are financing your deal they you will end up paying a lot more in finance interest and still maybe end up with marginal instead of good quality work and you are only delaying the date for flipping , reselling, or being able to get a property rented.

My initial inclination is to get an MBA focused in finance.

It is an old, abandoned synagogue with a 4-car garage, small backyard, and rooftop deck.