Everybody wants to have the cake and eat it too.

I Live in Anaheim Hills, CA and getting ready to retire from a 20 yr career as a fire fighter.

No I'm not going to put them up around me (Aliso, Mission Viejo, Laguna Niguel area) was thinking more along the lines of Buena Park, Anaheim, Fullerton area

Looks like you want your cake and the icing, though nothing wrong with that.You want to hoard all the homes (not sell any) but you are running low on capital so it sounds like you only have two options, sell a couple and raise the funds to buy more, don't buy any more, or start getting some private lender funds to take small second positions on the homes to re-coupe your rehab capital.Another option would be to find another market that IS more condusive to flipping and flip a couple there to raise capital.

The answers were weighted from + 3 to - 3 and if you achieved a certain score at the end you passed.In your state if you have multiple choice it will be a cake walk.

If you're talking Anaheim, maybe.

I've heard a lot of dumb formulas, but I think this one takes the cake.

I know you will say you will have spent tons of time and money by then that you could lose but you can't have your cake and eat it too.When I used to work for developers on land development we would always try to get the best terms for our side.

Here in Japan we've been "spoiled" by close to two decades of zero appreciation (although, if you ask the big boys, they seem to speculate on this changing shortly) - we've been trained by circumstance to look for pure cashflow (10-15% pre-tax), with any possible appreciation only the icing on the cake.

Brea and Anaheim are in my plans for the next couple weeks.Welcome to BP!