If you have high credit limits or access to semi-liquid funds like a 401k you can borrow against those work in a pinch too.There will be storms... especially if you're buying distressed properties... takes cash to weather those storms!

I've also heard providing a "welcome basket" or something like that with wine, chocolates, etc. also helps.

This works better for something cheap to add value, since I'd be tapped out fully at that point.For now, pinching pennies and trying to find partners and investors..

I put a lot in the renovation expenses, so its a pinch at the end to buy new appliances.

I'm in a pinch right now because a person I made an offer to almost two months just called up and said I was right so now I've got three closings going on.

Sounds like investors are feeling the pinch there.

Whenever I am tiling I always have the Umpa Lumpa song from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory going through my head.

As their names suggest, they’re not gluten free, and will lay their eggs in food material such as flour, cereal, chocolate, beans, dried fruit, bird seed and pet food.

Investing was something that I wanted to do on the side.When in a pinch, though, I understand why one might use the HELOC money.

What happens is companies get 2 big for their pants ( hire national PM who source) or folks penny pinch their family money....I know for a fact, if someones family buys a bicycle for child, it may come with training wheels....