We've got a very full plate this summer with acquisitions so hopefully we'll find the breathing room to change that scenario in the future.  

I am bad at this forum writing but will try the best I can.This all takes place in crazy Brooklyn.Roughly 2 years ago we were living in a 1 bedroom apartment 500 SQF with 2 kids we were paying $1200 monthly rent. one day the landlord approaches me that he needs the apartment for himself he would like to build up another floor and make himself a duplex and we need to move.I had no money saved up no way to buy a house so I I was going to drag it out with my landlord as long as I can (Any other apartment in my neighborhood would cost me at least $2500).After 7 months my wife started making me crazy to move we just ran out of breathing room in our tiny house.Long story short I told my landlord that he will have to lend me a substantial amount towards my down payment if he wants me to move, and he agreed so now I had what to work with. 

However, they will only be as good as the person handling the phone calls.Your local REIA might be helpful but I would not hold my breath on that.

I will be living and breathing real estate for the rest of my life and glad to start it off by joining a full, active community that BiggerPockets has been able to create.

Do it the very last task of the day, so you don't breath it in all day or stir up dust.

He lives and breathes the 203k, so he's great at walking you through all the details. 

If there's even a minor slip-up from you, you breathe the wrong way, etc...will he just go in ant take the property with zero remorse.  

According to my analogy, if you had been already living in the NC Triangle and finding it hard to find your desired Cap Rate, and wanted to try your luck in LA instead, that would be like "jumping from the frying pan into the fire"...Brent I like your analogiesJoe Henry:I live in LA and it costs a huge amount of money just to breathe here Operating budgets near the water meaning near the pacific  ocean are  9 to 10,000 a month gross for a not so nice apartment and living expensesMy median home price is  around 800,000 for modest houseFlippers are spending 10 to 20,000 a month on marketing because it's so expensiveNorth Carolina I think has great opportunity to get into college housing because of the North Carolina University and state schoolsAlso look at buying on installment sale for free and clear housesAnd for houses with no equity look at lease purchaseI would get licensed and look for problems

If this is true, do this.....breathe.

Take a deep breath and learn as much as you can.