These comments on this topic, above all, takes the cake!

The icing on the cake is that it was our current contractor that asked this question. 

Never speculate when investing, know your numbers, appreciation is icing on the cake...never invest hoping for it.  

Jorge Pena why can’t you have your cake and eat it too.

The 2nd house would just be icing on the cake even if I sold it for pennies.It seems so simple, I feel like I must be missing something big or others would have already done it... 

Oh, the icing on the cake: there was a fire in the basement! 

I may be trying have my cake and eat it too but thought I would reach out and see if any one was aware of a bank willing to do it.The one thing I forgot to mention is that I am going to try to BRRRR it.

Piece of cake.

Many people say they will wait and never end up doing anything.I was in your shoes 2 years ago, couldn’t find what I was looking for in Tri State area so I decided to go to the market as a novice not knowing anything about Charlotte just the research that I’ve done and planted my roots.What I do is I buy for Positive cash flow now not for the future, I don’t even consider appreciation that’s the icing in the cake a bonus.If I can get the positive cash flow/ return I’m looking for now I pull the trigger.The way I see it when the market turns and becomes a buyer market I will be a more season investor and will be ready to bounce on great deals.

So it seems I can't have my cake and eat it too.