I hope this is helpful, as a note I am by no means an expert I am also relatively new, but please let me know a bit more about your investing criteria and hopefully I can help you out! 

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Thanks very much for your help.

We recommend reaching out to a broker and obtaining a relationship with them as they can help you understand the nuisances and can make/break a deal.

I have some questions I need help answering. 1) What are investors/flippers looking for in the OC area (Costa Mesa, Huntington, Newport, Laguna, etc)?

This is all pretty basic stuff, that you can read about here on BP if you spend a bit of time looking.So, tough question for you - how are you going to succeed at RE investing, if you keep putting in little to no effort on research and just ask strangers for help?

In addition, we're forced to pay ~1k/ month to help pay for the CAM upgrade fees. 

The info is very helpful 

Thanks for the help