Would it better as a California resident to invest my money in a low price area of California due to driving distance and proximity?

That interest pays to me so I don’t have to give up extra interest money to the mortgage company and my 401k is pretty solid for my age.

which is fine Iv done plenty of cash deals but always using my own money I haven’t ever borrowed someone’s money or had a hard money lender typically on deals that wore 100k-250k Iv also used conventional financing before for flips and so on But recently every house worth looking at in my area is around 400k-550k for a fixer upper.

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When do you prefer using private money over traditional bank loans for real estate?

We canceled the contract, returned his earnest money deposit, and put the property back on the market.

Are you finding more investors turning to private money lenders for quicker access to capital?

Is it better to use that money as a down payment on one property or split it and use it for a down payment on 2 properties?  

Contracts, comps, hard money, sub2, brrrr etc. 

Feel free to let me know if this didn’t make sense and I will try to clarify better.