You should get familiar with school zones, art and entertainment venues, economic development in the area, in addition to types of homes by neighborhoods, and market conditions in your area. 

Husbands and wife are one economic unit when taxed as jointly filers.

Looking for cheap because my wife has to stay behind in HOUSTON for her health insurance, while we’re trying to have a baby.

Prior to being a nurse, I worked in community mental health making about 30k per year, as did he before we moved to LA.

Right now everything is at peak prices, but a basic rule of real estate economics is that we go on a 10-12 year cycle.

@Nirbhik Modi I like to answer this question using data, and I have built a system to do automatically identify areas that have the highest rental returns at the lowest risk.My team built a system to model rents using machine learning based on comps, location, and local economic strength.

Never underestimate the paranoia of tenants in lower-end units.In theft cases, it's usually not a Play Station, at least with home health aides in this position (my wife is extremely familiar with multiple cases).

@Burke Ericson what economic factors do you see today that are similar to 2008 and would cause a 30% decline in home prices?

*** I should add that buying for the economic environment is also very important too.

Regardless of current economic conditions, San Diego, has job growth and location is awesome.