I'm currently working on my personal finances while learning as much as I can in preparation for investing  in the future. 

Thats really cheap is it.Yup you can in many places in the US.. 

Stick that $10k in your back pocket and start analyzing every deal you can in order to learn how the numbers work, and use the Events page on here, your local REIA, meetup, and facebook groups to find other local investors to network with and learn from. 

Shame on me.8/30 - I am hyper sensitive and feeling that the landlord will do anything he can in the end to keep my security deposit, my roommate and I go through the apartment with a fine tooth comb and come up with a laundry list of things that need to be corrected with photos of everything. 

Having large amounts of body fat can make them “feel” very hot subjectively compared to an average sized person in the same room.

Reading and learning as much as I can in the two disciplines I am interested in working in.

I think it is in prime position to re-organize cutting out the fat in the company.  

I live on the bare minimum(theres no fat to trim).

Not fun, not fulfilling.Investors especially, in my experience, tend to take a more hardline view of things and it seems more of them have read the same books (basic theme, "do what it takes to get the deal and agents are fat cats who don't really deserve to get paid anyway - also thank you for the book royalties which I would never have gotten if I had just written a book about how it's fair to pay people for the work they do").So... if someone spends weeks or months finding and researching properties for you and then you happen to find a FSBO or something else that works out for you without them, do you owe them nothing?

Perhaps with a little cosmetic renovation it will even go above that and net you a little money.Having an extra unit would help (fourplex), but trying to get one for under $400k is going to be slim pickings in Sacramento (2 on the market at that price) and so they will be the worst quality properties in the worst quality areas.House-hacking really isn't intended for cash-flow unless you're putting a fat chunk of money down.