@Marc Shin despite seeming to conflict each other, both @Jay Hurst and @Frank Pyle offer good points. #1 you can often find promotions for zero or low interest from furniture stores that you might want to consider. #2 many private/hard money lenders will consider furnishings if the deal, including the furnishings, falls into their deal box.Believe it or not, it might be easier to include the furnishings in the deal with a significantly lower down payment if there is other rehab work to be done.

After searching more, I found a few BP post where people seemed to have one account for all deposits, and keep only deposits in there.

So infilling an income gap via people who can disappear just as easily as appear seems short sighted to me. 

Look into that - the numbers seem to work well for me 

We've all had good appreciation lately, but the markets seem to be much flatter than they were. 

That doesn't seem to stop all those clowns in DC.

They seem to want to communicate things are going ok, but i find their communication to be below expectations.  

A picture being changed or removed doesn't matter but seems simple enough to take down before you photograph the unit - even if the tenant is still there.

Since he doesn't seem to have been able to acquire that sense through the school of hard knocks, he's not going to acquire it through sweet reason spoken to him out of his landlord's mouth."

The only issue we have run into is the prices and bidding wars.Every single home we have looked at for personal use or an investment seems to have 5+ offers and go MUCH over asking.We are currently looking at Bay Park / Clairemont / Carlsbad / Oceanside.