I appreciate the food for thought.

Despite current unemployment rates maintaining below 5%, the recent rise from 3.8% to 4.2%(recently revised to 4.1%) is significant, especially when considering wage growth adjusted for inflation.Over the last few years, the median household income has dropped by 7.2% when adjusted for inflation (and this isn't even considering volatile food and energy prices), a troubling trend given that inflation has outstripped income growth.

Factors such as competition, food trends, lack of management, ingress etc, can close these stores. 

You can't predict how someone will react to any circumstance.Let me ask you this:Where would you go if you were a hungry lion in the savannas of Africa to find food?

One of my Bizz partners was the President of STauffer foods ( a Nestle company) He would talk about how important it was to personally hear feed back..

You get what you pay for in all cases: while shopping for food, clothes, attorneys, CPAs, Doctors and Realtors. 

There is no such thing as FREE college, FREE food, FREE housing, FREE health care.

Wholesaling is NOT investing.Wholesaling is a business.Wholesaling requires you to continuelly get new leads, sell contracts to buyers, repeat.Once you stop getting leads or finding buyers, there is no more money coming in.Sure, you can get food and automate certain things but it is a business.In my opinion, you should look at what you do in your profession and see if you can moonlight some hours to make more money that will go towards the downpayment.Best of luck

Just some food for thought for those who invest in mortgage notes and think buying seconds cheap gets you in the business at a low barrier to entry  - it is cheap until you have to reinstate or payoff a first lien.

Just food for thought.