You can also ask the title company to offeer a "lean Fee Sheet" meaning "Cut the fat" and reduce the BS fee's.  

Over in Austin, I’ve seen people lean on new, dynamic investment advisors who understand the rental surge happening there right now.

Even though you are the only post that seems to advocating purchase, i lean toward purchase.  

Just a little context I barely have a creative bone in my body I like to joke that my siblings took all the creativity for themselves this step personally was my hardest step. 

@Colby Easterling leaning toward doing an all-in-one loan and paying off mortgage quickly and then using the all-in-one to buy/finance BRRRR's, and fund my own flips (I already do a lot of flips with partners/OPM).

When you have no source of income, you need to be lean in terms of expenses because you don't know when the next paycheck is going to show up.  

If we go bodies of water it's closer to 48,000. 

I also know someone specialized in student rentals in Coimbra, who's interested to invest in more student rentals there, or LTR/STR in Algarve.As you can see, from the people i know, this is what i'm starting to lean.

Rome wasn't built in a day.The advice above about leaning into quality assets is spot on.

Instead of jumping straight to attorney fees, lean on your contract.