(http://fortune.com/2016/07/06/walgreens-rite-aid-2/). 

First,if I were you I would call the local free Legal Aid of Orange.

Although, it's fine to buy up to a 4-plex for your FHA-approved primary to aid expenses! 

If you focus on the following, you can probably reduce your risk and not have to worry about the area getting worse for a long time:-access to public transportation, job and population trends, rent growth, vacant housing stock in the area, quality of school districtFor example....If you're planning to invest in a town with one large major employer (say a manufacturer) and that employer goes out of business or has a mass layoff due to an economic downturn, it doesn't matter if you own single families or multifamilies......there isn't going to be anyone to rent your units or buy your property.  99% of the time, a diversified local employment base is better (or atleast one that has many employers that are downturn resistant - health care, education, government, etc.) 

But for a standard purchase, it's a bit like hiring a surgeon to apply a band-aid.

I work in the health care field and don't have any substantial real estate experience.  

Somebody who is working with people that don't have their house on the market and would rather sell without the aid of a Realtor.

I'm wondering if anybody knows of any financial aid available for this program or a way to use existing student aid to pay for it (maybe at a university in NYC?)

I got nothing but harassing phone calls after phone calls after phone calls from either him or his aids asking me to join up on some more expensive bootcamp or whatever.Don't waste your time.

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