Its never going to work if you want to buy in the low income areas of a city and hire management from outside.

I leave in the Greater New York Metropolitan area, precisely in Jersey City.

In cities desperate for revival (Rochester and Binghamton are high on that list), this is the wrong move. 

Many purchase deals in the city/county of Los Angeles are still going through already.

This is for a house that sits on a small hill in the city so it would need to be someone also familiar with getting the right permits to do so in San Francisco.

To be honest, I´m in the Maintenance & Construction for corporate businesses for some US companies in Mexico and we do some Real Estate down here also, but it´s way much different than the US, so I have much to learn from a lot of people around here and as @Julio Gonzalez, I think this is pretty much the right pad and place to start and to break my fears to start all over again from scratchAlso, I´ld like to hear more from @Justin Brickman why he voted for his city, pros and cons, it will help to read from a local...As I said before, thank you all guys for taking the time to write in this post and share some experienceDo you plan to owner occupy. $40k will not get you a non owner occupied San Diego property unless you find some unlikely alternate financing.

I am completely new to the investing side and would love to find something to meet new people/learn as well as learn more about the city. 

I've had a couple OOS investors ask about ADU potential in our market... not sure what hurdles there might be with the city (permitting, zoning, or otherwise).

Detroit is a great city to invest in one just has to be aware that is is a block by block city and to be careful

I believe I misstated the TX city earlier.