My company accepted a tenant with a horrific credit score because we heard her story.

If you are interested, I can give you some names of companies that can help.  

Fast forward to when they were there (but not the designer, she never went and never told me she wouldn't go) I see my card was charged a huge amount, including an additional 5k from her own company, above and beyond the 7.5k I had sent her!!

.: I'm an American living and working overseas.

That is for larger companies or for disgruntled clients or relatives looking to help.Per diems only work in theory.

Investments from CA tech companies is driving job and population growth. 

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.  

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 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! 

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