Purchase a duplex in San Diego and live in one unit - PROS: essentially get help paying my mortgage via rental income, proximity to rental property, maximizing FHA loan on a more expensive property (maximizing my down payment in a low interest rt environment) CONS: The market is so unbelievably expensive and rents are not comparatively high enough to really make most moves profitable, high Debt to Income ratio thereby limiting my ability to purchase again2.

But next of kin close family is where I would be going if you can get to them and see whats up.If the whole family has limited resources may not be much help there.I know when my mom was in the same situation the corporate owners would not cut her an ounce of slack so I paid her rent for years. 

This 1: helps society out, getting more people vaccinated but 2 and perhaps more important to landlords: limits your risk.

@Wendy Thurst I would say if you have a partner already just look to close it with your cash price and try to limit the number of people you split the profits with.

But they live in CA, so it's hard for them to get either, they are limited and expensive. 

These loans are also not limited to a maximum number of properties and sometimes the loan to vlaues are higher on 2-4 unit properties.  

There's not a limit on the number of times you can use the Veteran's loan program because it's a lifetime benefit.

Its just like my bank loans I only pay on drawn funds and in the rare instances we are at our limit with our banks and I take on a HML for construction I make sure its as stated.Also cant emphasize enough what was said above about fake lenders with come on rates that will simply steal your money.

Hard money or private lenders or just plain old cash or dogecoin will get you the rest : )   If you are buying with cash there is no limit. 

HUD eliminated it back in September 2015 and replaced it with the Limited 203k.