W2 income helps tremendously for conventional financing assuming you haven't exhausted all of your options there already.If construction sounds like a bad idea, tell us what you like to do.

This thread talks about some of the detailed questions you should be asking of any Tk company you consider (thread started by another then-new CA investor): https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/55/topics/361999-new-investor-from-glendale-caThis isn't an exhaustive list (we're working on a much more comprehensive list for our site, which should be up by the end of the month) but it's a great place to start.

There are so many ways for you to get started in investing, like buying your first home to start the equity clock, investing in a multi-family and living in one, using your SFH/rental as AirBnB, etc, that I would suggest exhausting your local opportunities before looking elsewhere (especially as a newbie).Find a local agent, wholesaler or investor who can answer your questions on the local market.  

I’ll be wrapping up an Associates this year and exhausting the rest of my GI benefits to get a bachelors over the next 2 years.

We are saving a lot each month for a down payment but I’d like to know if I have more options to purchase instead of exhausting my cash reserves. 

Are you going to continue on when you have exhausted plan A, B, C, and D and the going gets tough?

Your the most exhausting blowhard Chris. 

We also make sure there are exhaust fans tied to the light switch to vent the moisture out of bathrooms.

She paid to remedy the problem but it was exhausting in very very customer service type way.

But my tenants are pipefitters (they can change a hot water tank), boilermakers (can change a hot water tank with their eyes closed), electricians (can replace a fuse box with a breaker box), electrical crews (can wire a 2 story house for cable tv), scaffold builders (can trim a tree with a pole saw), welders (can replace the factory exhaust with a custom stainless steel exhaust on a riding mower), construction foreman (can add a bathroom counter and vanity).