I have the meet up app but was wondering what other platforms I can use to find popular real estate networking events in Southern California preferable close to orange or LA county.

While you build your team, start/continue analyzing deals and figure out what kind of house hack you'd like to do.

That's the way to analyze a market. 

We've started increasing our rehab budgets when analyzing properties to try and attract higher quality contractors.

I’ve been looking at properties and trying to analyze them via calculators for flip, BRRR and rentals like crazy but they never come out as making a profit even though on the surface some look really good, others look like seller is too greedy.

When I analyze properties I always seem to evaluate a lot of good deals, numbers wise.

The new thing that’s getting popular especially in expensive markets are call micro units.

Hi everyone, 
I'm new to investing and was wondering if this would be a good deal to pursue. 
Price 450,000
Cap rate on listing is 13.35%
Taxes 15,700
Annual Gross rent 81,900
8 unit property
        4 commerci...

I know Brandon would say to analyze, analyze, analyze, and I will but I always get stuck on estimating the potential rehab cost.

First learn how to find and analyze deals (BiggerPockets is great for that.)