The issue with watering your foundation is that you have to do it always, every year without a break in order to achieve the desired effect.

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Possibly break loan covenants and can't cure default, lender takes back property.  

If so, you know how the neighborhoods break and that the appreciation trajectory can be diametrically opposed within a block.

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If you are a newbie or old timer who is really struggling to break through in this business, what do you think is the reason so many don't make it?

At best you’ll be able to buy, through “creative” finance break even cash flow situations, which at best may begin modest positive cash flow in 3 or more years. 

And even (no “especially”) someone who has done so much for so many (that awesome free or cheap education, those fees so cheap at Quest that he evidently sold for nada and, as to most of the 401k’s, no one wanted them even for free) perhaps deserves a freaking break.

Getting rid of pitbulls, breaking up illegal activity, evicting nonpaying tenants, renovating to the studs so we can get higher rents.

Figure out how many sales you need to break even.