A couple million dollars worth of houses in Orange Couunty California, might only be 4-6 houses.

You might have candy for diabetics, that is low calorie, might have some fruit treat that is even healthy.Not so much about candy stores, but what is your business ethic?

Florida offers a variety of options when it comes to real estate, and it can certainly be a fruitful choice for investors.

I'm going to have three or four (recommended) GC's give me bids, but I want these bids apples to apples -- not four individual visions and wildly different apples and oranges bids.  

I live in Orange County so I know my fellow Californian's pain.  

I'm a Real Estate Broker Associate in the Orange County area.

There are lots of towns in CT with median home prices well over 300k and awesome school districts (for locals, think West Hartford, Farmington, Orange, Monroe) where you can pick up a scraggler for 150-200k, give it some minor/straightforward rehab (usually kitchen & bath updating, a new face, and just a lot of lipstick) for under 50k, and all of its comps are selling for 350k+. 

You realize you could say "Every Friday is required to wear orange day" and they would just nod. 

Bringing in some charts that include the periphery of Upper King just below crosstown is comparing apples and oranges.

Yet I would still argue Orange County is still a great place to invest.