@Benjamin Coons I did take out a zero interest credit card in case I get into a pinch it lasts for 15 months.  

Some days it can be very, very tough, and other days you just want to "Pinch" yourself because your having so much fun; but it isn't a Passive Investment like you might get with some of the other options you mentioned... but in my biased opinion it's a whole lot better.I hope that helps a little.All the Best!

Larger commercial borrowers may feel the pinch, I can see loan to values dropping on larger transactions,but big deals usually go to other sources of funds not local commercial banks.

It doesn't seem like it at the time, but that extra $10-20 for whatever it is adds up to put me in a pinch.

So if your house listing looks tiny, and all that text is a messs and you have to scroll, pinch, and expand.. you are losing the game.

. - properties you can buy for 50% - 80% of market value) or...Jaw-dropping, hysteria-inducing, "pinch-me-I-must-be-dreaming" deals?

You need to get with a tax advisor as to your tax election for your LLC, that will have a bearing on how you will be reporting taxes.I find getting an LLC set up from LegalZoom for a note business to be rather amusing, pinching pennies and buying notes. :) Take care, you may get to be our test case for the SAFE Act, DF, and brokerage requirements being in the note business in an LLC.

Barely heard from them the second year, but last year, since the baby/babies or whatever is going on down there, has just been pinching my ***. 

You don't have to save and pinch. 

Savvy out of state investors start with an area where they have resources (ie they grew up in Milwaukee and have family who could run over to a property in a pinch).