One the one hand, responsible leverage will magnify your cash on cash returns and enable you to stretch your investment capital. 

Maybe septic issues fall into that category, too, but I think it's a stretch.

I purchased a home that stretched our single income family thin.

We are also going to be stretched thin.Our decision is to be stretched thing in our "cashless and save retirement/credit cards for emergencies.

I may be able to stretch this about another 2 years, but after that no.

I could be saying this wrong, as it's stretching my brain to go back this far.

Plus it would help you build more capital nearly risk-free, and most importantly, the networking involved will help you to build the relationships that you will need to really stretch out your starting capital.

Soon as you fire the PM - you only have 5 total tenants in a 5-year stretch.

- wages start to increase, squeezing employers, and increasing prices - after a long cycle of easing credit and fierce competition among financial institutions for lending business, and consumers & investors stretching themselves more, credit terms start to tighten again - the Federal Reserve increases interest rates, increasing the cost of borrowing - usually, oil/energy prices increase with increased US & global consumption, increasing costs across industries- consumers got used to the wind at their back and got used to it.

I just took a quick glance at this (ran comps for the past 180 days in the same subdivision) and I think an ARV of $400k is probably a stretch.