.- Bike or walk to work- pack lunch and learn to cook.- Read a new business book or equivalent every week for years.- Amass liquidity as rapidly as possible.- Use that liquidity to purchase real estate or take shots at small business entreneurship.To more directly answer your question though, I think that the “live in flip” is one area that seems appealing right now, in Denver.

So he had to walk away from bigger pockets.

There's so much wisdom to be gained from those who have walked the path before us.I appreciate the encouragement to absorb as much free knowledge as possible and to explore different strategies until finding the one that aligns best with my goals and preferences.

Negotiated 20k off the top without contingencies as already walked it and report didn’t show anything I didn’t already saw.

Walk homes.

You said you live in Austin, no better way to learn than directly so, there is a syndication group Viking Capital LLC, that is buying/raising for a 252 unit property in NewBraunfels, about 45 min south of Austin, watch their webinar at their website below and they have an 82 pg slide show as well, then take a 3 hour trip to go see it, walk the property, go into office ask about the units available/leasing how the market is from the office staff, look around for quality of property/deferred maintenace needed then drive the area for other competitor properties.

Better to walk away than overpay...

I've posted a very detailed explanation of this process on this thread that walks through the numbers. 

Of course you cannot clean it all up, but what can be done, as to have someone like Don who has a wealth of knowledge and experience walk away (and trust me he is not the only one who feels this way).Any ideas?

Build your own spreadsheets, do comparisons until you're blue in the face, walk neighborhoods until you're crippled.