If you are only planning on living in it for a year or two, your payment relative to the market rent should be top of mind when looking. 

Again, this doesn’t make sense because my new manager has already said they want me to hold onto the deposits.On top of that, they’re now claiming that I legally need to open a separate account to hold the deposits.

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My CPA has a couple LTR's, so I figure he must be on top of this.

Try to narrow down your options to the top 3-4.

If that's the case and you're using the majority of the space for that practice then a business purpose loan like SBA may be a better fit.

When i saw this article and that it was in my city of Long Beach I thought of landlords on top of prayers for this family.

You can get up to 10k PENALTY-FREE which is 10% on top of taxes.If you use a Self Directed IRA (SDIRA) you may be able to use the 9k as a down payment but I would argue this is going to be more complex, especially as a first-time investor. 

If I were you I would get a list of the top 5 largest hospitals near you (ask google or LLM).

I had talked to one particular group on a property of ours in San Antonio, but after about four or five houses and they still did not act like anything would fit then I pretty well gave up on it.