At the end of the day I do a lot of talking, and there are plenty of talkers running around with their verbal shtick.Considering the headache inducing amounts of real estate info out there, I'm almost reaching a point where I want to just focus on working jobs and finding better jobs just to clear my damn head!!

Which by the way is a tort (civil violation) called "fraud in the inducement. https://legal-dictionary.thefr...Lie to owners about the actual market value of their home.Make their money by marketing a home for sale when they don't own it. 

Until then, I'm fine being a lazy bum for a while. 

Ober Gatlinburg was once a legit day trip for eastern ski bums. 

Just remember TALK is cheap, especially here.I just love advice that induces Y O U to take risk with assets while the advisors take no responsibility.(1) is totally irresponsible;  just remember terms like NEVER, ALWAYS, NO ONE are seldom true.(3) APPEARS to be true to me as I have yet to have a lawyer or escrow company that will consider it.(3) is dependent upon legal definitions. 

Wishing you much success on your first project and bummed it sounds like a bumpy start.

I guarantee he steers everyone looking for sba loan to high intrest bridge loans.. i could pull a bum off the corner and get a 13.5 bridge loan for less than half price.. 

Probably would've ended up a beach bum!

zEstimate is truly volatility-inducing feature introduced by Zillow, but this is good marketing to give 'euphoria' to buyers and seller, I still use it day and night to give quick glance whether an asset is relatively cheap or expensive before even placing a bid LOLThru zEstimate I would now if a flip home would be good to buy to consider or it's relatively more expensive than the neighbour.

Perhaps you pay for all materials yourself, but pay 10% down payment as inducement to start the project in terms of labor only.