I'd rather finance a property 100% and break even on it for 20 years, and build up some sort of a nest egg - presuming it's the right kind of property - not a $30,000 pig :)I agree with you on most things, my friend, but on this you need to get off your high horse.

Cash Flow, flipping to increase the nest egg?

I'm currently in the process of building my nest egg and getting my finances in line with my goals.

Your initial strategy you said just have those 4 houses as a nest egg but it sounds like now you want to expand from there.

Clean, tidy, there were a couple new cabinets up, he'd done a lot of painting with the walls and work on the floors, he'd broken up the breaker panel into more evenly divided circuits, replaced old cloth wiring with romex, sized one size over code and took the panel from a bird nest of wires to orderly and labeled, he had stripped and refinished some of the older woodwork in the house and replaced a lot of the old cast iron drains in the basement with PVC.

Too low to qualify for any conventional mortgage (I used to work in finance, hence the nest egg, but now I'm a teacher, hence the very low income).I'm single and with COVID that won't change anytime soon :-).

So your nest egg is kicking off 20K a year.

You are going to hate yourself if you lose Grandma's nest egg.

I also have the Nest thermostat

I got a good property manager, and I kept a nest egg that would have allowed me to have the place vacant for quite some time if worst came to worst.