He asked me to join his company and we went to a @Dave Lindahl event.

Thank you so much for your insights, I already have a company in mind but if things go south you may hear from me sooner than not.  

I wanted to update on my case as well-- I changed eviction companies in late Dec 2020 after finding out that the first eviction company I hired was incompetent, had my unlawful detainer rejected twice due to clerical errors, and lied to me about the rejections.

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.

Ok Im officially deciding to go down the wholesaling route now I'm currently working for a company locally to wholesale. 

I work with a property management company in NJ and we see a lot of success with our clients holding long-term rentals. https://www.tvdhousing.com/Welcome to BP! 

By the way, my company can likely finance your deal with 10% down on the purchase (90% LTV) and 100% financing of the renovations.

Assuming that they aren't simply lucky in market timing, excessive in leverage, or excessively risky, why do you think that some companies and leaders ARE able to duplicate the ROI driving expertise and/or improve personal-business productivity in a way that allows scalability?

Then I spoke to a company that does business lines of credit, based on personal FICO scores.

Once the ex-tenant/ employee quit working, the company stopped sending the garnishment checks.