Hopefully you plan on doing $25k & avoiding seasoning to grow faster 

And we had an investor who sent a piece of mail asking to buy land from us, which we said “yes, we were about to work with a realtor in about 2 weeks, but if you could get things done faster for us, we’d love to work with you if you could take care of all the issues that come with the house”.

The lower the DP, the less you need to recover, and the faster you should be able to recover it.Equity's main role, is to accumulate through appreciation (not paydown...to slow, and too small),...and then cash out to move forward into larger property value. 

Rentals can bring cash and help you save faster for your home.

Nothing can ruin your property faster than water infiltration. 

Don't forget income is actually can rise faster than the rent.

That may offer a better option to gain equity faster on the ARV.I would also take a look at the total time spent into a new log cabin build, overall costs and compare to recent sales of exact log homes.

The write-offs will make the time to recover my costs that much faster.

It will work out better for him in the end because rent rates are increasing faster than social security income.

Those who do know what “enough” is will find their journeys much faster because they levered the accumulation years.