This will allow me to keep more of my hard money free to parlay into other properties.

With the funds loosening up from my current sale, I could parlay them right into this home.

You don’t know-your VA might work with a cat in her lap.6.To compute your pay offer, double the time YOU would take (or at least time and one-half.) 7.I use an average of $4/hour, as prevailing wage rate.

I would wager that many folks have no idea how successful they actually are (or aren't) because they aren't tracking vital data.

What you should have done, is requested to be let out of your lease, and requested the return of your deposit as part of that.If forced to make a wager, my money is on the landlord prevailing, with a chance they could counter-sue for even more damages.

Would you Parlay the $ I get from selling it into other cash flowing properties?

You don’t know-your VA might work with a cat in her lap.6.To compute your pay offer, double the time YOU would take (or at least time and one-half.) 7.I use an average of $4/hour, as prevailing wage rate.

Let's argue appreciation is not guaranteed and is like placing a wager.  

I would wager that big bad landlord is going to lose the majority of the time.  

He, my brother, and myself are looking to rehab and flip our first home in the Los Angeles area.We've found a few properties that pencil out to this: $700K purchase price, $150K in rehab/repair cost (adding a room in most cases), $1.05MM ARV.The numbers seem to work out and the above numbers are conservative, but I want to know the best way to parlay our resources and situations so that we can maximize profits on our first deal.Resources to consider: Brother: $45K in cash, Great Credit & Income, Has never purchased a propertyDad: ~$1.7M (I think?)