To confine your focus on proving there is a problem rather than seeking intelligent solutions is a waste of time.Now I would be among the first to not recommend buying a book for the answers, even though we do sell a book on one very specific piece of this puzzle.

You have one piece of the puzzle (time), but you need to get a second up to speed to be successful.

One just sold for 140, too much, but the guy who bought it has been doing this for a while so that puzzled me.Some of the buildings further down the street from mine are a different story, closer to the main road, and gas paid by landlord.  

He was puzzled by an issue with dropping water pressure at the bathroom sink when the toilet flushed.

I have the other pieces of the puzzle figured out with refinance lenders, contractors, property managers, realtor, etc etc and understanding how the numbers work...my greatest barrier is just having the cash!

What pieces of the puzzle am I missing?

FICO scores are only a single piece of the overall credit puzzle.

Although I love solving puzzles all day and it pays great, I realized that I have 40 years left in a cubicle before I can have my freedom.

We need a forum on here just for trivia, jokes and puzzles...

You will earn more in compound interest over the time period than you will spend in simple interest, so you end up with more cash at the end than you would have had just paying cash and saving it up again, and again, you don't interrupt the compounding, which is one of the most powerful pieces to this puzzle.