Atlanta was a bigger appreciator so it crashed much harder when the bottom fell out a few years ago, which allowed it to be a great market for turnkeys and appreciation because if you bought at the beginning of the up-cycle, you were golden. 

Today's technology enables us to communicate and collaborate effectively with clients literally all over the globe.

You seem to be looking for a unicorn, some magical Golden Ticket of a deal that will lift you out of your dire circumstances and allow you to focus on some of the other pursuits you mentioned like helping children.  

The D-T appears to be a Golden Slacks 'standard' multi-state document.

Bren family, (Irvine Co), CBRE, among others as well as the medical institutions are aggressively going after land for expansions.The newest media darling is Anaheim in the Golden Triangle I think they call it.Google it, you'll see who you're up against.The Irvine company has even strayed outside OC and bought near Valencia.We just don't have much land left,......my .02

Once Title IV is fully implemented and non-accredited investors are allowed to invest I think you'll also see people more open to funds from pretty much anywhere on the globe.  

And the Globe 5/17/15 beat me to it with a study today by Brenda Buote and the US Census – They’ve calculated the Percentage of Home Owners spending above 50% of their Income on Housing.

Get a family sized home, see below:6661 /GOLDEN POND CR 1887 sf 3/2/2 built 1990 listed $155K, rents $1200there are several of these in MLS right nowif you do a 15 yr loan with (20%) $30K down, payment is $917, assoc $75/mth, management is $350 for lease fee and $75/mth.

And no matter where I buy now, the military could move me somewhere across the globe in a couple of years again.  

If it's not a deal when you buy it don't ever expect it to become a deal. if you can prove to a lender that you're the golden goose then I'm sure you could find one but if you don't have the experience to back it that is a lot of risk that they take on, so you need to bring something to the table.