Your internal fire will get you VERY far here.  

Over the last few months I have been analyzing several potential multi family and industrial properties through local brokers/loopnet/costar in an attempt to find a property that would yield somewhere near a 10% Cash on Cash return and a 15%+ internal rate of return (including NOI, depreciation, and a 2% assumed appreciation). 

Costs $5k-$6k all in.1) The internal components are aluminum and have an increased chance of fire with society's increasing electrical usage.  2) In a claim, the insurance company pays out $, then looks to see if they can recapture some of the loss from other parties that are at fault. 

Our backgrounds are in international development and NGO management.

It sits in a great location ( 2 minutes from prime shopping at the Premium Outlets, 4 mins from Universal Studios, just off of International Dr which is prime for tourists and attractions).

Hi @Chloe Landon, well ill share my story, I went to school UCSD International Business and I got a master in real estate from Wharton and I work few  years in private equity as a investment analyst and did well and open a consulting firm for  medium and small private equity and joint venture investors in southern California, I have all this fancy college and had a great background and I done it all I was realtor in college, as well as property manager and analyst and now I flip and build projects you name it, so that's me then I have a very smart partner who came to America from Israel with about $2000 bucks and didn't know English he was 20 years old working double shifts and over night he saved and got his citizenship got loan and flip his first house and his business grew wholesaling multifamily complexes in east coast and now we are both in our very late 20s year shy of 30 birthday and thankfully we have company with about 190 units multifamily and we individually own a lot of property and try to flip 15-20 homes per year, so no matter what route you take belive in it hard work and when you think you are tried and cant take it anymore do it for another 5 hours if you really want to be successful you cant quite and you can think this is so hard just do it till you see results and everything in between forget it don't program your mind into thinking its hard or what is best just do something, please PM I love to help a  young mother with any info I can.

We just opened our LLC. 1 of us is a US citizen, while the other 2 are international (H1B visa and OPT).

Internal mortgage company AVMs are all crap too.

Keep in mind that Internal Revenue Code (IRC) is 70,000 pages and it keeps growing.

Once you get to this point, you have acquired good knowledge, you know how to run your numbers, you have an internal built-in "good deals radar/sensor" to help you quickly focus on the good deals and weed out the bad ones, you have a great mentor to push you in the right direction.