Also, being the caregiver makes driving to the Inland Empire or Lancaster/Palmdale difficult.related to the previous point, but standing ALL on its' own is "no tenants/no toilets".  :-)I've met an individual who lives locally at our local REI who has successfully invested in several NPNs; he's agreed to mentor me.What are the expectations that you have, think you have or may have heard in regards to the amount or level of return one can expect? 

. :-)Currently I’m interested in finding rehab deals in the Inland Empire region and offering them to wholesalers.

You see that the SFR rental cash flows much higher in the inland empire.

Another property to the Core empire.

(I don't make much and I live in the Inland Empire in California) Its not easy to find properties in that price range let alone multi-units in that price range where I live.Now I partly attribute some of my success so far on being in the right place at the right time.I made several offers before actually having one accepted.

At 25 you've got at least another 20 years of investing and if you wait a year or two, and then start a snowball effect to buy more in year 3 or 4, you will feel way more comfortable building your empire!

Calderwood managed to make quite an empire for himself in a relatively short amount of time based on the principle of doing a job better than was expected and using sound judgement and good taste in every detail.

I can give you a Quit claim deed for the empire state building.

It can enable you to build a real estate empire, but it could also bankrupt you.

And then within CA, LA did better than Inland Empire.