Just trying to play the situation out and see if others have had any issues with HUD in this issue..

So, if you play your cards right, you could live rent free for over 4 and half months in Downtown LA.

Move to the area that provides the most opportunity to be happy (or has a good airport to get you affordably to places to play). 

But it works, simplified, like if you owed $500 to CA but paid state XX $300, then you only have to pay CA the $200 difference.CA may not be able to get blood from a turnip, but they will suck that turnip dry before they let it go.Likewise if you, say, play professional sports for a team in state XX, live in state XX, make $20,000,000 a year, play 1 out of 20 games in CA, they want that 1/20th of that two million taxed in CA...but they will give a credit for the taxes you paid in state XX according to the interstate agreement. 

@Douglas Spence I would rather drink all night and play call of duty while blaming somebody else for my poor financial situation!

Start out by playing defense and reduce your expenses.

His legal advice saved the deal, because if I was left to my own remedies of "good faith" negotiations, I would have played all my cards and been forced to fold.

I have about 150k cash to play with.

I'll play with Rentometer over the next few days and see how far it gets me.I was finding City-Data was cutting off in 2010 ish depending on the area. 

You would need to network with HR professionals in your market for referrals since they generally are the ones who arrange for those contracts.Do your homework...it would not be the play I would make.