There are some programs that may allow alternate credit like utility bills, cell phone.  

Not to mention if you can afford to live in San Diego it's going to take a heck of a nest-egg to create enough positive cash-flow to make San Diego livable.  

If you give them your cell phone number, they will text you at all hours.

I apologize for typos the cell app and spell check is not a good combo.Anyways good luck and forget about zestimates

I just got a house under contract in a medium size city in Missouri. I'd like to build a buy and hold portfolio in this city. It's not likely, but it's not impossible a tornado could level this city, destroying my ent...

I, too, want my retirement nest egg to grow faster than afforded by stocks & mutual funds.

or someone whose abilities and honesty is worthy of trusting with your entire purchase-investment in the property, your expected holding costs for the time it takes to re-sell the property,  and maybe your nest egg, too. 

Basically, it's as if she and you are both starting at the beginning of your RE journeys, to find out whether she/you would be better off investing for appreciation (eg. buying property that should be ALREADY worth more than you pay for it, AND it's due to keep going up in value too, but, won't generate much net cash flow), or, buying for cash flow (in areas where appreciation has not happened historically, but are still golden egg locations for double digit net rent returns). 

They include cell-based meter communication in their monthly fee which, based on the features that I want, looks like it will cost just under $18/month for my triplex.

Put up your own rental ad on postlets dot com , get a google voice number to bounce to your cell phone, us the google voice number in your ads.