I feel your pain and there is no right or wrong answer. 

I feel your pain and had the same question you did.

Academic medicine doesn't pay great (top software engineers make more), but at least Stanford offers this affordability program to help ease the pain of buying.To qualify we need 10% down. 

It was painful to say the least. 

The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act provides special protections to active duty military. 

@Jinhee ParkI sold a flip to a FHA buyer.... took us 90 days... it’s painful for all parties involved.

(its the buying at 145k with an arv of 150k and needs 15k of upgrades and 15k in repairs, and not having the RE license, and it rents at $1200, starts to feel the pain) 

However, independent of the painful schooling I've had being a long distance landlord (I refuse to hand it over to a prop man co), I've managed to turn the property around, literally doubled the rent from when i bought it, significantly improved the tenant base and have updated, renovated, and flushed out most of the poor workmanship the property has suffered over the years.

The tenants have actually been a pain to deal with, extremely demanding and had a few run-ins with late rents.

I know that I can probably get something from 21st Mortgage, but they are a pain to deal with.