You make structural engineers smile at keeping a nice fat safety margin in their dead load calcs. loooool. 

I started with absolutely nothing to start out with, no job, no cash, bad credit. but had I not started with that trial by fire I may not have become as rounded out (not a fat joke) an investor as I am today.

Because of that not-so-pretty picture most investors have in their mind, the first word that comes out of their mouths when they’re offered an investment in South LA is a big fat NO.

Nicole Almond thanks for saying hi!!

Makes me dream of big fat mortgages!

Make sure your investment property supports itself in a way in which it does not matter the external conditions.Here's a dumb analogy that I like to illustrate the situation:The way I see it is if your cow gives you milk every day, you will not care how fat it is, however if you need to slaughter it to eat, you will definitely want it to be fat and that may not be the case.All the best to you!

Miss the "fat bags"(not drugs).

You might have a fat wad of cash in the bank (You'd have to since to even have a shot at getting the financing you would probably need to have minimum of 6 months of reserves for all the fixed costs like PITI and HOA fees, if applicable, for each place, including the new one.

When it sits on it's a$$, doing nothing but getting fat (equity), it loses you money. 

Our condo was as someone put it... going to be a fat piggy bank, but we still let it go.