That will become the norm, until you have a healthy balance sheet and good relationship with a bank(s).Finally (sorry. 

When this was first explained to me I could not stop smiling for days. 

You smile and nod compassionately when he says that and say, gently, "Well, (insert name), you're insisting that I float you a two week plus loan, aren't you?

Of course, for investing in rental real estate, you want markets with lower vacancies and ongoing demand.The bottom line is that for a great real estate investment market, you want to invest in areas where the data show signs of current and continued healthy growth.A few sources to find the data mentioned above include City-Data.com and censusreporter.org.

I know I'll get much less cash to work with, but this home is in a very desirable area and will have a healthy $500/month cash flow once refinanced.

Keep building equity through forced appreciation and using it to scale up into bigger deals.Just be sure to keep healthy cash flow in all your properties and don’t over leverage.

Then smile all the way to the bank.I have to defend my goals when I talk about the races I run.

Healthy bacteria etc..

Plus make a healthy profit, which could enable me to buy another unit.

Danny:I didn't get the sense you are so much suffering from analysis-paralysis as much as healthy dose of concern you might be stretching yourself too thin.