Southern California Real Estate Investors Association
Where SoCal investors learn, deal, and grow together.
Monthly meetings, deal-flow circles, and field-tested education for real estate investors across Orange County, LA, Inland Empire, and San Diego. Practical, local, and taught by working operators sharing what's actually closing in our market.
Join the chapter — free.
Get monthly meeting invites and a weekly digest of SoCal deal flow and market reads. Your first meeting is free for new members; we'll never sell your email.
What you get
- Real SoCal deal walkthroughs — comps, financing, exit strategy — presented by working operators.
- Deal-flow circles where members share off-market opportunities and partner up.
- Practitioner-led workshops: creative financing, ADU strategy, syndication, 1031 exchanges, California regulatory issues.
- Members-only field guides, deal-analyzer templates, and training built for the SoCal market.
Real estate, the SoCal way — local, practical, and built on real deals.
Upcoming events
Two recurring events each month — a chapter meeting and a happy hour at a second venue nearby.
First meeting coming soon.
Join the email list above and we'll send the date as soon as the venue is confirmed.
Areas we serve
Four Southern California markets, each with its own investing reality. SCREIA content and meetings respect the differences — they aren't interchangeable.
Orange County
SCREIA serves Orange County investors from Anaheim and Santa Ana through Irvine, Newport Beach, and the South County coastal corridor. OC’s investment landscape skews toward primary-residence flips, ADU strategy plays under SB 9 and city-specific overlays, and lower-cap-rate buy-and-hold deals where the appreciation thesis carries more weight than monthly cash flow. The weekly newsletter covers OC-specific topics including current hard-money rates, ADU build economics in the $300-450/sqft range, and Title 24 compliance for rehab projects.
Los Angeles County
Across Los Angeles County — from Long Beach and South Bay through West LA, the Valley, and the Westside — SCREIA members navigate the most regulated tenant environment in California. LA city’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance (RSO), the city of LA’s Just Cause Ordinance, AB-1482 statewide rent caps, and the patchwork of municipal rent-control overlays in West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, and Long Beach all matter for value-add multi-family underwriting. Chapter content addresses LA RSO disclosure obligations, RSO-encumbered acquisition pricing, and the syndication-compliance reality for CA sponsors raising LP capital.
Inland Empire
The Inland Empire — Riverside County and San Bernardino County, including Riverside, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Corona, and the High Desert — is where most SoCal BRRRR strategies actually pencil. Cap rates run materially higher than coastal SoCal, hard-money lender activity is dense, and the rehab-and-refinance math works on properties priced below replacement cost. SCREIA’s IE-focused content covers current 2026 rental market reads, IE-specific lender shortlists, off-market sourcing channels active in the region, and the longer-than-coastal rehab timelines investors should plan around.
San Diego County
San Diego County — from San Diego city through Carlsbad, Oceanside, and the East County — has the most permissive ADU environment in California, with the city of San Diego’s Affordable ADU Bonus Program stacking on top of statewide SB 9 and SB 10 rules to allow density that’s not legal anywhere else in the state. SCREIA covers SD ADU strategy, the beach-flip premium that runs through Carlsbad and North County coastal markets, and military/PCS rental demand that drives a distinctly different long-term hold thesis than the rest of SoCal.
Sponsors & vendors
Want to reach active SoCal real estate investors? Sponsorship is full-disclosure and limited to vendors our members would actually use.