Our goal is to get few flips under the belt and then start adding buy and holds single family.

Sharks will take 70% of your income but it is exchanged by experience and a flip inder your belt, repeat 3-4 times and someone would start listening.

We have some friends here in san diego that have invested in the green belt.

I'm new to real estate investing and I don't have any deals under my belt, yet.

Personally, I would recommend NOT borrowing from friends/ family until you have enough deals under your belt to feel confident in your investing abilities.  

As an investor, the alternative is to buy somewhere else that's much more affordable and has a higher likelihood of appreciation....I like the rust belt/midwest.In the meantime, I'll continue to shake my head at folks that pay $225,000 for homes in my neighborhood (Ruby Hill), replace all the cabinets, put in granite countertops, tile the heck out of the bathrooms and try to flip them for $350,000 - $375,000.  

Thanks Tiffany, and sorry if I came off so blunt before I was on the belt in traffic so I kinda was already heated.

With a few of those under my belt I want to shift gears and focus on rehabs/flips in order to achieve my short term goal of building more liquidity.  

@Ellis San Jose @Dmitriy Fomichenko @George Blower Thanks to all for your help!  

@David Faulkner  I am now an official lyft driver.. not sure I can figure out how to use the app though.. but will try it one Sat morning for fun.. it was a funny processyou show up and they have to inspect the car.. guy says turn on the engine.. ( I said I don't have an engine  he looks at me  funny)  I said DUDE this is an electric car it just goes.. kind of stunned then he had to make sure the seat belts worked.. and boom the Tesla was approved.then of course you have to upload your stuff on your EYE phone with pictures and that was cool never did that before so if nothing else I leaned how to do that.but then and its a big but.. they hit you with a test at the end.. and its the rules of a cabbie basically so I flunked that.. they were shocked.. but I got to take it when I got home and only missed one the second time around.. so now I know when I pick someone up I am to turn the music down and greet them with a warm hello.. also I should not smoke in my car or allow others to. some other pearls.what I found interesting was the lady next to me was saying the reason she is doing it.is she works right by the airport.. so on her way to work she can pick someone up.. and when going home she is hoping she can take someone from airport towards her home.. thereby making money on her normal commute.. a few of the others said same thing they just want to pick folks up on the commute.