Solution:oStop dipping your toe in the water and go ALL IN on one marketing channel (in case you are wondering, Direct Mail is my bread and butter when it comes to finding motivated sellers).oMake one channel Fat, Healthy and Producing Leads first.

REMEMBER: Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. 

Chicago code is that EACH habitable room must be at a SUSTAINED temerature of 68 degrees F during the day and SUSTAINED 66 degrees F at night.

Even if you are holding the cash on the sidelines while you look for a deal, you still are better having access to the cash instead of having a fat balance sheet.

Many years ago, stock brokerage had fat commissions.   

And it's fair, it's a very minute thing and a complete fat tails scenario.

Save the money for a year or two and start looking for a "fat pitch."

My hope is that all the soccer moms (and dads) go out of business and I can get their 6 deals a year too.For everyone that goes out of business someone replaces them.. its takes a big fat economic recession to winnow the licensed agent pool. 

We're seeing pricing vary drastically even just going 20 miles south of the city just because everyone is so "fat and happy" with work.

Trim away as much fat as possible (like trading down in automobile if at all possible), stop dumping money into the 401k for a while, and try combining your desires to buy your own place and invest in real estate by "house hacking," where you live in one of the units of a multiplex while renting the others.