You are in Lancaster, CA - a place where, I don't know, off the top of my head 6 close friends are CRUSHING it buying property and flipping for big checks or holding them for great cash flow, but you're dealing with idiots 3,000 miles away. 

Just a heads up, most of the time these types of transactions don't make it past the due diligence phase, and the "deals" being offered up are just MLS retreads everyone else has passed over. 

This is what made me scratch my head.

Property probably couldn't even pass an inspection yet it is livable and would be a cheap roof over my best friend and I's head when moving back to Texas.

I don't see why one+ couldn't then study the demography, before targeting those metro areas and enclaves that are attracting more businesses... due to rapid growth, lower taxes, better wages and standards of living, etc.I have moved between Portland metro, Sonoma County, etc., etc. numerous times, since first coming here in 1988.

Property probably couldn't even pass an inspection yet it is livable and would be a cheap roof over my best friend and I's head when moving back to Texas.

I cannot get  this video out of my head.

I'm actually heading to a private sale at our county courthouse tomorrow.  

I am still new to this and just trying to wrap my head around it all.  

Later on in my business I will head towards me financing it but right now I'd like to use other people's money because I don't have enough to cover a full flip.