I honestly would rather skip wholesaling but I’m still working on positioning myself for meeting the lending criteria and having a decent nest egg to finance the rehab. 

one day, but for now am just focused on creating as large a nest egg as possible.I found Bigger Pockets through the podcast (I think looking for investment related podcasts), and that led me to the site.

RE is a stable asset...future equity will be there even if there is no appreciation....your tenants will eventually create a nice equity nest egg for you. 

They probably have a nest with babies under the house.

Trying to use this opportunity as my unfair advantage to build a nest egg before returning home to Ontario. 

I meet investors who started with TK just to get into the game and then did BRRRR when they had a nest egg of a portfolio. 

Vern, will be seeing you at the nest temple meetup

Our nest egg was moving into this place knowing it was an investment opp.

You won’t have time to build furniture in the future, you need to focus on being the director of the circus.Install smart remote WiFi looks (LockState), NEST thermostat, smoke- and carbon monoxide detector, make the place business ready (printer, desk, etc.) and start an awesome looking listing on Airbnb for free.

Age and wealth accumulation targets should play a huge role in this.Those who are younger, 30-40 years out from "retirement" age (65+) should remain extremely leveraged to let time pay off their investments, and let their money work for them.The exception are likely those freebirds who can live on $30k a year passive income from their late 20s/early 30s and, maybe don't care or need to be extremely leveraged at any point.Those nearing retirement in the next 5-10 years, probably don't want to be leveraged much either.I will say after many years of growing the nest, I can't imagine how I'll ever be able to "spend down" all I've earned and accumulated over the years.