My advice, find a job in an industry that you enjoy, save religiously, limit unnecessary, debt build your credit, get pre-approved once you're financially grounded, and house hack your first deal.

She religiously payed it down to $10,000 until she met me.

Palm Springs california is a very Hot vacation rental market during some of the music festivals and white party SFR with nice pools rent for Thousands of Dollars a night.

I pay off the balance religiously every month.  

(I have been scouring Realtor.com religiously for a few months now) Another Idea is to buy a duplex in this same price point that way I have intstant cash flow and We could live in one unit, a luxury I WONT have in the fix and flip model.

I am very new to the site but I have been religiously listening to BP podcasts for a year now. 

My former jobs were as a butcher/manager in the restaurant I own, rehabbing and flipping properties (I had a contractors and real estate agent license) and selling religious goods for a company in Italy (I speak Italian and would sell to churches in the midwest).

I track my stuff religiously now because we seek spec loans pretty frequently.  

Upon applying for financing, we were denied due to the fact that the lender does not lend when there are "religious affiliations" in the lease due to it making resell more difficult in the event of foreclosure.  

You can discriminate when you live at that premises, if the place is for a religious or fraternal organization and for employees if the employer owns the property, in such cases you don't have any offering to the public for a rental.