If it was me i would wait till i get here.. also you have all the doomsday folks who think the market is going to crash in the next 5 years so maybe your timing when you retire in 5 years will be perfect.. 

You won't be up to date with the market conditions in San Diego, if a crash will come and you find out too late you can lose much more money.

Other than the unpleasant gray haze, you would never know the eruptions were happening on the other side of the island.    

This way you increase the chances you can weather a storm if the market crashes without bleeding from the pockets or having to liquidate the property in a none desirable fashion.

I have always had an interest in real estates but my 1st attempt to become an investor in 2006 didn't go well after the market crashed.

In my experience when a market crashes people avoid change because they are afraid about the future.

Returns that are guaranteed always get paid on American Greed, until of course they don't and the whole thing comes crashing down and the victims lose their capitol.

After Nasdaq crashed and my partner lost $3 million (he was the money guy and was not on my system), I decided that I should learn the securities and bond side of the business.

Low interest rates back than spur real estate to an end with a subprime story for the climax top. 1990 & 2000 & 2010 crash, buy, buy, is the market like the 1990 crash no way man.........................................its about the same.

We had a huge real estate market boom... and an equally huge crash.