Bringing up comps and discussing a reasonable increase could go a long way in getting them on board without feeling blindsided.

Most min loans amounts are going to be 50-100k, so an issue there.

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The flips aren't very passive, so if you go that route, you'll have to be prepared to have more work on top of your current W2.

Still, I think you'd find it difficult to find one that would be a good long-term investment unless you had another ~20-30 years to go, it's at least cash neutral, and you don't plan to hold it too long (to avoid too much investment loss and before you get to the point where it's unsellable because of too few years left); that's another way of saying that maybe it suits your cash needs in the near-term or is at least less of a pill to swallow than other options until you find something that's more of a sensible long-term play

@Jason Weidmann what do you think of every agent responding telling you to go, go, go!

A lot of things are going right for you.

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