If it is readily available to you, you will most likely use it in a pinch instead of buckling down and eating hot dogs, mac & cheese and ramen noodles... that is character building stuff and great stories to tell the kids and grandkids!

I am in a major pinch to find money right now for my property that closes tomorrow (my buyer bailed on me last minute).. so if my Canadian friend transfers money from Canada to the the US, his bank might charge a fee as well as my attorneys bank?

I have only closed one investmennt property for myself so my answer should be taken with a "pinch of salt" for what  it's worth.  

In fact, I came up with a grand champion award winning chocolate chip cookie recipe in my younger 4-H days.

The 10% discount coupons work in a pinch as well.

There are several Starbucks near my property and I know they serve hot chocolate there as that is what I there.

The finger-thumb pinching and spreading is very limited, so zooming in and out has very little change.

Play better safe than sorry cause we have been pinched for non permitted work in the past.

Please remember, with the influx of newer families, the same "good" schools will start to feel the pinch with overcrowding.

Institutional lenders tend to deal much more harshly with them.Depending upon the specific area of the country, non-owner-occupied house loans are virtually non-existent or difficult to get.Bankers seem to have a blind spot when it comes to the interests of the speculator in EXISTING houses.While it might be routine to make 100% construction loans to builders and developers (although these, too, are drying up rapidly), the thought that someone might want to make a 90% or 80% loan to purchase an investment turns otherwise jovial Mortgage Loan Officers into pinch-faced misers.They suddenly forget long standing banking relationships and outstanding credit histories, mumbling about money being tight and bank policy being restrictive at the present time.What then is the solution?