I'm not interested in building an empire or being a millionaire.  

You are building an empire.

Grant Cardone has built up an empire of over $450 million in real estate and has had such great success because he doesn't allow other people to project their problems of financial insecurity onto him.I seriously recommend you check out his BP podcast:http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2015/02/05/bp-podcast-108owning-350-million-real-estate-10x-rule-grant-cardone/

Their solution that they found was to split the real estate empire in that city in half, so that neither individually was across the city's line in the sand.

The goal is to focus on growing our real estate empire and being able to retire permanently at 44 and 42.

@Mindy JensenI tried to help the evolving empire.   

Over the last week I have been building my team of contacts to begin flipping houses here in Southern California (Inland Empire specifically).

I'm trying to build a bigger empire while also trying to figure out what some of my other passions are.

Build a rental property empire by Mark Ferguson

Since you are looking for cash flow, can you get the kind of cash flow in Riverside or Inland Empire that you can get in Columbus, Indianapolis or Baltimore?