PWR indeed was my first choice as they're closest but emailed over 10 days ago requesting the doc for which their site's link remains broken but no response nor callback =/considering alternates to PWR in the area.. well anywhere socal really but not desert

Landscaping is usually desert style - rocks with a few hardy plants.

He would get pre-approved for another VA mortgage and do it all over again once he found a renter (which isn't hard in the middle of a desert military town). 

That is what they call desert. 

For those ratios you should buy in rural or desert CA.  

I see a 3/2 in Desert Shores for 110k, for example.

lets connect and talk strategy, I'm a local investor too and own a few units in inland empire and high desert.

In most of Utah, (a semi-arid desert) a land-owner cannot simply tap into ground water by well or from a stream or river without water rights. 

Hi my name is Steven legal name for now is Joscelyn but my true name is Steven because i'm transgendered and i'm a newbie in the high desert of sunny California.

I will take another swing at this... how about Las Vegas... very low maintenance in a desert environment ... no tax's  .... and industry that will never die at least not in vegas.. other areas but not there.