Running comps and evaluating deals takes a legit professional who eats, breathes, and lives this game every day.

Nights you don’t want booked maybe repairs or deep cleans like a professional grade carpet cleaning or something of that nature is different as running 100% occupancy for more that a few months straight can be hard on a property and it needed time to breathe.

And, deep breaths :) You will learn from this and it will make a great story once you're done.

Some of us live and breathe real estate, and it rubs off on others and we can all share in the joy of it. :) When other people are out fishing on the weekends, I'm driving around with my wife.... looking at real estate LOL. 

Getting the property renovated and rented is key - after that (assuming it's cash flow positive), you have some breathing room and there's not as much urgency on the refi.The HELOC and the loan against your stocks are both great options for low cost debt. 

When I follow-up, I hear: "I didn't have time to read that book", "I didn't have time to listen to that podcast, or drive to look at properties, or go to a REIA meeting, etc. etc. etc" But in the next breath, "Hey, did you see that game yesterday?"

I've been a BiggerPockets fan for years, dating back to when the company started as I was fascinated by real estate and wanting to build a legacy / empire that would last decades after I take my last breath.

I'd prefer to have much more breathing room in a deal like that, though cash flow can be expected to be somewhat low with only putting 3.5% down. 

Mold in the laundry area might just be a surface mold problem which can be cured with a disposable breathing mask, some towels, and some bleach spray. 

Those are two things that are simply never going to happen, Avee-Ashanti, so let's agree not to hold our breath together and wait for them, OK?