When I was stationed in Northern VA, high costs had me stuck until I sold my Corvette to meet my DTI ratio and get a condo using my VA Jumbo LOan—one of my best investments.

Duplex fully occupied with rents of $2,500.

Their home in Waldo was also a great deal a Duplex they found for $210K and now getting $1250 a door since it needed renovations.Some advice is be careful with what you by so that you are not paying top dollar or market price for a home that someone just renovated.

I have a rental Condo in Southern California (City of Santa Ana) for 3 years now.

Also most townhome developments are part of some sort of HOA and if there is an HOA they will definitely not allow you to form a condo within the bounds of their HOAFeel free to reach out if you have more questions!

Hence I recommend starting with a duplex.

As mentioned, you probably have to skip condos, and you REALLY want to look up the local laws AND the HOA CC&Rs. 

The area is called the Pearl and that worked it totally regentrified the area but not affordable condo's U know start at 500k and go to many millions.

You can buy duplexes relatively cheap here in Columbus, so they will cash flow quite well.

He closed on a duplex 1 week before the '08' GFC.