All-in-all the amount of the loan shouldn't be substantial enough to the point where I wouldn't be able to cover it out of pocket anyways if need be, just want to make sure that I'm not missing anything.Does it sound like I have the situation figured out or is there something I might be missing?

Miss one, and you might just find yourself drowning in delays or worse and kissing that sweet deal goodbye.Another checkpoint on our journey: third-party inspections.

Unless I missed the memo, that hasn't come back yet.

So then I repeated and the agent still missed some points of how I wanted the offer presented.Second, coming from the BP book, I am coming in with an offer well below asking as an investor.

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

Moreover, you have much higher overhead than most experienced investors.In a REIT you are missing out on all the tax benefits. 

I think this gets missed sometimes, or people are surprised that they are taking a lot of risk AND energy/time to get returns generally available already with much lower of the two

., single-family homes) and miss out on opportunities in duplexes or small multifamily.

On the flip side if I focus on paying the tuition off first I may miss a potential opportunity that could jumpstart my investment portfolio but at least I won’t have that debt to worry about starting my journey off.

That seems crazy to me to think thats a bad deal.But what I don't see right now is the ability to get deals at any significant discounts and thats where I'm thinking I may be missing something here.