There are a class of tenants who don't want to pay, and wish to live rent free.

I didn’t find it in time.The safer option that will make me a less qualified loan candidate for a while: Quit my job, live rent-free for a few months (thanks Mom and Dad) while I get my real estate license, move to Denver (and rent), get a job as an agent, use my stash of cash to live off of for a while until the commission checks start to roll in, HUSTLE, HUSTLE, sleep, HUSTLE for as long as it takes to kill it and become an attractive loan candidate again.The yeah right option: buy a shoebox in the Bay Area that would force me to burn ALL of my free cash on a down payment then rent it out to (hopefully) cover the mortgage then pray nothing went wrong (Did someone say earthquake?).

I believe you can put down as little as 3.5% and even if you just secure a duplex, you could live rent-free (off the rental from the other side) and could save up faster for your next purchase. 

I wish I could clone her and transplant her clones to markets that I want to tap into.

I started out building guitars on the east coast, and have since transplanted my little opperation out to seattle in 2014, where I still build acoustic and electric guitars in my personal time.

If you just plan on buying rentals to turn over to a property manager it doesn't matter where you live really.

My family have several rentals of retirees who have been there 5 plus years in the same rental and NY transplants who been renting for years.

I am also a transplant from the UK and now a full time wholesaler, investor and Real Estate agent.

We are currently in a position to leave our current residence and live rent free in a home paying only utilities and upkeep.

Not much equity but I live rent free.