I will provide some thoughts on the San Diego purchase- virtually all high LTV mls purchases since rates started to hike have negative cash flow at purchase- historically great appreciation- historically great rent growth but recently flattening- prop 13 is great benefit for long holds- laws keep getting less LL friendly.

If you close to the university, I might give them a call and see if they have a database that they use for places for visiting professors, etc can stay.

Virtually only ones to have not done well in San Diego RE were those over leveraged at inopportune times.If you want To invest in San Diego, I suggest you save more before starting.  

The rent control in some cases is really unfair to the landlord as the percentage increases are virtually irrelevant when the rent is a small amount.

We went completely distributed and virtual from the jump because I believe that's where professional services is headed in the next 10+ years.  

Back when we started virtually everything had positive cash flow but I was lured by the seemingly higher cash flow associated with class C.  

He had performed virtually no underwriting.  

I created lists, searched virtual markets and was able to skip trace all of these for free...or so I thought.

Use this time to study at the university and continue to study real estate.

I know the university, the med school, and the hospital are there, so surely an MTR would work well.