So the assessor is showing 300 square feet more than what is there.We ended up bringing this up to the seller and were able to use it as negotiation leverage.

The Broker has difficulty bringing a Buyer at $1.9M and ends up bringing me a Buyer at $1.7M.

I tend to think that family and upbringing plays a more important role than anything else.

Would also love to do any jv deals or speak at events about my crazy up bringing to where I'm at now!

My husband and i are buy and hold investors.You can see that I didn't have quite the typical upbringing - I already knew some of the underlying fundamentals about landlording. 

Freedom from my strict upbringing, the military discipline, school rules and grades, corporate bossman.  

DPA programs are typically a silent second, and right now, using them often pushes your closing costs and interest rate so high that you end up bringing the same amount to the closing table anyways.

Ends up bringing in approx 15-30k profit per year depending on which unit you purchase. 

Our instincts, coupled with our upbringing and experiences, make it impossible to avoid biases, and on the whole, I think some of them can be quite healthy for us, as they serve to help us make good choices, if we balance them with external input/info, too. 

Believe me everybody has the same opportunities, Regardless of their upbringing