In my market (Greater Los Angeles area aka Inland Empire) there is a high demand for industrial product, and cap rates currently hover between 5.5% and 7%.

Real estate is not something you can learn and master at a 3 day bootcamp, and the education that you build your empire on has to be realistic, and accurate.

Can any of you awesome folks recommend a good roofer that services the Inland Empire in Calfornia?  

The distance inland is less a factor than its elevation.

We now realize that a better strategy, in terms of long-term wealth and freedom, would have been to sacrifice for a couple years, buy a 4-plex downtown or jump from SFR to SFR, and start a little empire of rentals.

Cal local micro areas and found that just in the Inland Empire alone it has a vast variety of real estate for investing.

@Andrew Johnson  YUP and I would have held my homes I owned in the bay area that were bought for under 200k each LOL one in palo alto alone would have today given me enough to retire on  LOL.. but you know how it is.I think for those in fly over country were appreciation does not really make many the accidental millionaire like CA or other high priced markets.. its all about doors... if you want to build wealth via real estate.. or its about value add be it flip  or stabilize rental assets... and its a job as well to scale then run your personal empire.

Hello all,My wife and I are working on finding the right fix and flip project in the Inland Empire in California. 

There are tons of variables to consider in land development.The long time developers I know own existing assets and then value add plays and they make ground up development a smaller part of their overall portfolio so if I project stalls or goes bad it does not take them down.

Thank you for your input and I know you're probably building a huge empire that will last for a life time and more.