Buy with the mentality that you are making your money when you buy, not when you sell. 

(aside from conditioning and the physical and mental health benefits)TO WIN!

Take it one day a time, take care of your mental health and take care of you.

Generally listing agents mentally clump VA and FHA together.

Floors weren't at all visible due to the level of clothing, pop cans, used kleenexes, and other garbage.Now that hoarding is considered a mental illness I want to tread accordingly. 

Then get your MBA form the best school you can get into if you have the resources and mental aptitude.

I have been listening to the podcast and reading about it for almost a year now, and I am now financially and mentally ready to start my journey. 

I love the mentality of just getting on-base, Michael, so that you can get into the game, but this is looking awhole lot like you're leaning your head into the strike-zone hoping to get hit by a pitch that might do more damage than you realize.Somebody else mentioned it already, but what you have budgeted for Repairs, Vacancy, and CapEx just won't cut it on a property of this vintage.

It's the road less traveled so you'll want to make sure that you have the right mental fortitude to make it happen for yourself but it's more possible than people our age have been led to believe by advertising a schools.

Which is pretty much the point I was trying to make... if you balance the personal home/investment property mentality when buying, you are likely to be able to make your personal home a good investment as well.