I live rent free for now in a landscaping shop my family owns. 

Time management is one of my core beliefs that has changed the landscape of how many deals get done. 

The exterior appears to be in decent shape other than some landscaping that needs sprucing. 

The bad: Needs updated baths, kitchens, refinished floors, paint, deck and landscaping at a minimum, basement is gross. 

You might get a break if you don't need the stump ground down (and can landscape around it or something.Then I would actually look at (again back to bids) getting a new concrete driveway.

It's either older garden-rise condos that are now being flipped for way too much, high-rise condos (with extremely high HOAs of $500-1000), beat up SFRs built in the 1980s+ that need a lot of maintenance, overpriced townhomes built in the 1990s/2000s (~$700k+), or the newer construction homes which are 5bed/5bath and at minimum $1.4mil+.

Hey there my name is Andrew and I’m in West Garden Grove,CA.

Use a garden sprayer.

I actually had a listing in Laguna Beach that was a completed flip with everything done inside and out, down to the studs, with exterior painting and landscaping, listed in the high $800K's. 

While this seems like a huge advantage, typical residential construction consists of tile roofs, stucco siding, concrete block fences, metal doors and windows, slab foundations and desert landscaping (rock), which do not require much maintenance.