Do you plan on flipping house full time or will you have  a "side job"?

That becomes the seed bed of your portfolio. 

Looking for areas that are driven by future job growth and strong leadership. 

Determined by drivers like job supply and renter demographics. 

My job requires me to be equidistant from downtown SFO and Silicon Valley and so I am considering investing in Hayward, CA.

I'm a 23 year old working with my dad and hopefully turning this into a full time job (in engineering now but would love to transition to real estate full time). 

Thank you for the advice it really made my job a lot easier.

I think you’ve got to find a secondary or tertiary market with a ton of population growth and jobs coming.

At the end of the day that is my job (yes an estimator), so mainly my job is looking at a project and coming up with a price and make a profit after all the work is done.

I’m renting 1 room out for $950/month, condo is currently cash flow negative by ~$400/month but I don’t mind because a stipulation to my loan (VA Loan) was that I needed to live in it for one year, I’m currently paying $1650 to cover the rest but a 1 bedroom rental in this zip would be upwards of $1,800 + utilities) Currently working 3 jobs and running a small online business to save as much as possible to make my next move.