Just to give you some info about me, I'm fairly new to this site and I'm looking to get into buying and holding in northern New Jersey (multi-families in Newark, Jersey City , Union, Orange, West Orange, South Orange etc...), Flipping property in NY metro area  and also investing in vacation properties.

Please note she painted the entire house except for the kitchen colors of orange, yellow and blue.

I'm new to SLC via Orange County, CA, a licensed agent, and small time investor.

We are in Orange County California, and are licensed brokers/contractors.

Aaron Mazzrillo (fairly new to BP) said during a presentation here in Orange County that you don't find "deals", you find "opportunities".

Try to stick with zips that are the lightest green, yellow, and the lightest orange.

I highly recommend the $20 'big orange book' at Home Depot. 

If you're there during the week when it's not so busy, talk to some of the folks in the orange aprons and ask them about what they think labor costs might be on something.  

How would you look in an orange jump suit and a really short haircut?

However,  if I go a little further North about 45-50 minutes drive into Orange County, NY, there are a few towns and cities, some somewhat depressed and school districts with bad reputations where I certainly would not move my family to, that have much lower property values, much lower taxes and the numbers work.