(Might want to mention I live in Southern Cal...

TX, AZ, Southern CA, FL.Might as well be telling someone from Texas that "AC isn't worth the money in most properties, and and it shuts you away from nature."

I'm located in the Southern California, Los Angeles area.

Brookings Oregon.. again not going to get 10k lots but it will be 10 miles from the ocean and some great rivers come in there including the Chetco and the Basically you have to realize the coast of N ca and S OR is quite rugged .. there are props to be bought within 5 to 10 miles of the ocean then it turns into rugged  national forest type properties for a substantial amount of territory.. once those coast ranges and the southern Siskiyou's are crossed them you get  into high desert type props. 

Has anyone bought (within the last year or so) a multi family ( triplex - quad) property in the Camden, Burlington, Gloucester counties of southern NJ?  

I know for a fact it will not work here in southern CA simply because if you assume 50% OE and go after $100 per door in minimum cash flow, you would never get a deal because nobody (not even the banks) sell properties for prices at 40% of market value.

“It is about getting Norfolk Southern to do this on their tracks.

I have been contracting for the past 6 years all over southern New York CT and NJ, and my family has also done so for the past 30 years.

Lara - Since you are located in southern California, I would look up the Norris group for really good analysis on markets.

After the market evaporated in the area we lived in, we relocated to southern California where there is a much more opportunity, and to be close to family.