That's cheap money.

I think the advice of going to a JC to knock out as many credits as possible on the cheap and then transferring to a "name" school like Cal or UCLA isn't a bad deal.

The tenants don't care about the septic as they will use non-septic safe toilet paper (the really cheap stuff), flush just about anything down the toilets (even though my lease spells out what can only be flushed).

New London is very tempting because the houses are so cheap 

So far I have looked at Stockton and Sacramento, which to my naive eyes appeared as expensive/cheap as the bay area. 

But I am not sure this is a good strategy anymore.In a city where Uber pool and Lyft line is just as cheap as the subway or a bus (and you get picked up at your home and you don't have to walk to a bus stop) is being close to a subway stop really that valuable anymore?

I moved in with a friend for a while and asked my insurance agent specifically about this and he wrote me a renters insurance policy to cover my belonging for really cheap.

We are goin the opposite direction from you and we are installing all cheap faucets so that when they clog we can just swap them out.

Their main attraction is that they are cheap but cheap doesn't mean good.

Either get a cheap condo in sylmar or move up to Palmdale.