@Yents Ybrimovichi - way too complicated when you're just starting outjust save up enough to do your own house hackgood luck

Increase earnings, reduce expenses, save, and invest.

As someone who deals and talks to real Private Lenders (small shops run by a guy who lends his own capital and doesn't use big box), they have a hard and fast business model that produces the rate of return they need to remain profitable and curb the risk on their cash.So the best product for a budding fix and flip investor is the bridge loan which includes acquisition money and construction money. 

@Chris Kay beleive you can do DSR loans without a job as they qualify the property, not the borrower.You'd still need 20-25% down though.That's where you have a decision:- Pay down the mortgage, setting yourself up for a future refinance to free up your VA Entitlement.OR- Save up for your next acquisition.Only YOU can make that decision as you have to be comfortable with the increasing debt-load risk and the additional time to manage everything.

Washington is expensive and I’m at around $23k saved to start investing.

By working with motivated sellers, I’m able to secure below-market deals and pass those savings onto buyers.

To do so, I need an initial team who can cover the following aspects of these projects:- Wholesaler- Contractor (Inspection oriented)- Equity Partners (Project Incentives)Once the deals are in place, the financing support will be through personal capital for upfront costs, with the intention to raise private capital and include hard-money lenders as-needed.

We wanted a better DTI.Then we slapped a large heloc on it as an opportunity fund right before my wife quit her job for good.I would save the cash. 

This saves me a lot of communication time as I only need to respond to inquiries with cut and paste responses with the open house day/time and I only need to show the rental twice a week. 7.

If you oversimplify it and take your total cost to close the deal / monthly savings = # of months to Break Even.