Orange County can be a challenging market due to high prices, but there are still opportunities if you approach it strategically.

You may want to live in a world of Wild West, anything goes business (I won't mention the orange haired political elephant in the room) but I assure you, your ignorant, uninformed, and weak defense of this sort of activity is not common.

I had someone message me about my debt fund and was like "not FDIC insured", no kidding - you are comparing apples and oranges and thus their is a risk premium for investing.

In our welcome basket we allocated $2-4 for gifts i.e. chocolate bars, Florida Oranges when in season, etc

However, these properties won't be low hanging fruit.

But I don't see any low hanging fruit in any niche in real estate investing any more. 

Anyway looking forward to meeting people from St Augustine, Daytona Beach, Ormond Beach, Port Orange and New Smyrna Beach.  

More than half of banana imports, America’s most popular fruit by volume, comes in through the ports being struck as of Tuesday morning, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.Other items I have read that are at risk are: cherries, cocoa, sugar, imported wine, beer and hard liquor.In the spirit of the strike impacting more than just materials and labor directly correlated to real estate, I intentionally posted this in "Off Topic" as I want to get a better understanding of what your concerns are with an ongoing strike.

Wishing all the participants a  happy and fruitful time and networking luck:)

I am organizing an Orange County, CA meetup at the event LA and IE investors are also welcome.