Welcome @Ryan Lunde plenty of people on here from San Diego!  

There are plenty of RE investors on here that are in your area that will help you. 

But yeah, there are plenty of cash-flow properties out now that give a good enough margin. $50, not a pretty margin to me.

However, at $200k, you can find plenty in Buda.

I'll buy you a drink next meetup.

Plenty of networking events you can attend, I find most of mine via meetup.com

To date (in only a year and a half of being in business), I have worked from home in Venice Beach (a block from the ocean), in Nicaraguan hostels between ziplining, surfing, and volcano boarding adventures as well as from high-end Nicaraguan hotels while drinking wine or margaritas (yes, while I work), throughout countries in Europe between sight-seeing, outdoor adventures and on airplanes to and from, in Colorado from a mountain house I holed myself up in for 2 weeks during an amazing snowstorm (and between snowboarding excursions), from Atlanta hanging out with my parents and friends for as long as I want to (weeks), and I've even worked on cross-country road trips.I wanted a 'job' that was this flexible for a few reasons.

Plenty of kids and families living nearby, too. 

Its not a huge investor market, we get some newbies, plenty of people sign up on the meetup site and I send out email reminders  but we just don't get people attending. 

But there are plenty piscataway on up.