There are also several monthly meet ups including one hosted by @Cameron Whitehead in San Marcos and another meet up in New Braunfels.

I've sent you a private message as I am also living here in San Diego and interested in getting into RE investment.

In my experience(3 dogs/1cat) It's insanely difficult to rent a home while having large pets, or more than one.  

I realized that working insane hours and traveling all the time for work would hurt my family too much. 

So for example a 3/2 house in San Diego is 400,000, $4000 is way too high for rent but mortgage could be $2000 so I rent for $2500.

I went with a flat fee of 30k each.. and I then spent 50k on a big presentation in San Francisco.. included a room for 300 .. drinks etc. radio adds my flight down ( well I flew my own plane LOL  but my team had to fly down.. ) we sold those all of them in that one weekend.. so this lowly dumb @@@S realtor ( me) made 660k in one weekend minus 50k in expenses so like I said you can go both ways with commish.. and those builder were estatic their bank was putting pressure on them and they knew exactly what I was making since we had a listing agreement and I got paid on the hud like any other bozo realtor.

You're not getting 50% of ARV in San Diego unless it's a scrapper.

I currently rent in San Diego and I pay my rent to a property management group, however, I am assigned a property manager (not on-site) that I can contact if I have questions.

Feel free to reach out I’m in San Diego as well!

$80/sqft for rehab is insane!