The preach of 3.5%-5% down is irresponsible without the bolded condition of know your numbers, don't over leverage, have contingency funds and plans, DONT OVER LEVERAGE.Legitimate good deals are far and few between for most people and agents so they make a lot of BS excuses to justify a bad buy as something decent, they are wrong and just in denial as it highlights there weakness to perform in the market.

See my thoughts in bold below.1.

Cashing in my ROTH IRA was a bold move.

The US government has never tried something that bold before.

However, I’d say be bold and keep going! 

Hi @Julie Sisnroy you have already taken the bold step of going out of state for your investing so figuring out the provider should be easy now.

I was bold enough to not sell my stocks by riding out the wave; probably the smartest thing I had done at that time because they did eventually regain their value after about five years.

Be smart but be bold.

As bold as it may be....just do it!

While I know nothing about the particular business (car washes), it looks like you made a bold step into a new business with a carefully considered first offer.