Both options, look for single-family with good rent potential (proximity to jobs and transportation, low crime, $1700/month zillow rent estimate) and low costs (convert to electric utilities, repair roof and structure).

It's all relative.If a household is pulling in 400k/yr and their mortgage is 38% of their income... other cost of living items like food, clothing, transportation are still a small(er) percentage of their income.

Another driver is transportation.  

Hydro power generates more energy than is input into the power plant because the sun moves the water from the oceans uphill by way of rain.Petroleum produces more energy than is consumed in extracting, refining an transporting it because biological organisms captured the suns energy in the form of converting simple molecules into more complex ones.There are fundamentally only two sources of energy available to us with out current knowledge of physics - solar and radioactive decay.

Bakersfield is now focusing on diversifying itself into transportation and logistics, and with the new High speed rail coming, we are set to see a triple in population over the next 20 years.  

Food and drink cost $612.78 for the first month, and transportation costs $43.65.

One major struggle for the city is the cost of car insurance and the weak public transportation.

@Jeremy TimkoAnyone's that use, sell, transport drugs  is a low-life uneducated person that never had a mother and father to raise them the right way.

I would be nervous to transport it and risk a crack.It's also extremely heavy.

"A" class properties are typically 10 years old or less, in great neighborhoods, in great condition, and have lots of amenities like pool, playgrounds, access to public transportation, etc.