Hey BP, Introduction and Advice needed

[Priscila De La Torre]

Hey Bigger Pockets,

Just wanted to quickly introduce myself and ask for a little bit of advice and maybe make some friends. My name is Priscila and my husband and I are interested in investing in real estate. We've been reading books, watching podcasts, monitoring the markets. 

Now were excited to get started with buying our first property. We live in California, San Bernardino county. I've been previously preapproved for 285,000. Which isn't much here. Now we did save more since then(we have 18k) and I paid off a collection I didn't know was on my report. My husband is working on getting himself off a mortgage he had previously helped a relative with. So hopefully we can get approved for more together. 

We are thinking of doing the brrrr strategy or buying a house and flipping it. We know some people that would likely invest with us so that wouldn't be a problem. Now as the first time doing this we have found that most houses in our price range are in San Bernardino which isnt a nice area. 

Would you recommend BRRRR or simply flipping? Is there anyone in the area that would like to connect?