He was living in Lemon Grove, CA when he decided to move.

     The city of Indio runs the gamut, from low income housing, to high end homes well into the millions, to agriculture properties at what are very reasonable prices compared to much of california's ag. 

Were in California if that matters.

I'm planning on flipping in California.

Hi I’m from California, looking to fix and flip or fix and hold properties out of state and I am curious to know what the Minneapolis/St Paul market is like.

And funny thing, my family and I were just in California last week on vacation, right before I signed up on BP lol.

We can also buy a house brand 4/2 2000 sq ft from builder for $700 or $150k versus $3000 a month here in DFW or California lite as I call it!

So bottom line is out of area investor with 25 to 30k can get in the game.. and that is the attraction.. were 25 to 30k in the high priced markets not so much.. and then you have others that have more wherewithal than that and they scale it .. bottom line investors chasing yield.If investors can get a 5% return in CA.. as opposed to 5% in the mid west what would they do..

California) Based on your example, each property is only cashflowing $166 per month, so I'm guessing the property value must be $500K or more for you to have such little cashflow.  

I am 31, originally from Brazil, lived in Orange County, California for 8 years, and moved to NC for a job.