I like OC, my office is in North Orange County.

Paid platforms often offer additional features like market analytics, off-market property leads, and filters for investor-specific criteria, giving them a leg up over free options.Exactly, most platforms have to offset cost somewhere because of how expensive it is to keep the data up to date.

However; you can look for something just the opposite, with more blue, and less orange, since the couch is orange.

I have college rentals and plenty of clients with college rentals around Seton Hall in South Orange and Maplewood. 

We are open to investing locally however living in Orange County CA, I don't know if that is possible?  

Maybe the partner is less able to do some of the leg work or their priorities change or maybe they move out of state!

@Jason Wray Thank you very much for this response ..I’ve never sold one of my rentals before feels like I’m cutting off a leg and paying close to 100k for cap gains is really starting to eat at me 😵‍💫Any chance you would be so kind as to send me a link to something in the ballpark of what you’re suggesting this way I can get an idea of area and what this type of property could look like!

My husband is a contractor which gives us a leg up in flipping, but we are also curious about diversifying and buying rentals.

I've heard of where some coaches or courses weren't geared for newcomers and would like advice on a good land flipping coach that's not going to require to give them an arm and a leg but will really help me get started. 

I did some research and found a local Real Estate networking group here in Orange County.