These are both on the Orange line, which gets you downtown very fast.

Orange Beach) and they also want to be able to use the property from time to time. 

If you wouldn't have your flip contractor work on your home, then your spreadsheet is useless for renovation anyway and you would just be comparing apples to oranges.

We rent a townhouse, at $1,700 a month in Orange County, California.

I am under negative cash flow since last 2 years on my 1st rental property purchase in Orange County, but it has appreciated 8% in 2 years. 

If you folks don't learn the basics you won't know anything to base your ideas on.You go out there dreaming up how to pass paper around like dealing a deck of cards and you might get other paper to pass around while wearing an orange jumpsuit. :)  

Others, some of them with decades of experience in financing and financial regulation were cautioning those who might read your initial post and be inspired by your enthusiasm that the methodologies being exposed could land you in the cross hairs of the regulators.I understand Orange is the new Black and all, but for some folks, orange just isn't that flattering.

Oh, the orange tree was sweet (pun intended) too.

@Jessica Zolotorofe    I'm looking at Elizabeth, Newark, Cherry hill, Mt holly, Paterson, East Orange, Maybe Hamilton.

I'm a flipper and licensed agent in Orange County, CA.