If you can play the game the game will warmly invite you in.Forgive spelling errors.

You either overcome and adapt or fall prey and play the blame game like majority of society.

I play the piano and am already very self conscious about my neighbors having to listen to me practice.

I don't know for sure but...27 years, owing 276k and Vegas...Sounds like someone likes to play the tables with their home equity.There are also some comps in the area for the last year where a 4 flat sold for 425k which of course the appraiser didn't use.

I am just hear to rant....don't worry you can play the violin. 

There is obvious and large opportunity for those that play the game well.

First, I just need to say that Biggerpockets.com has downright shifted my entire understanding of what real wealth is and how SIMPLE (not easy, but simple.) it can be.IN SUMMARY:You just have to know how to play the game.And it's HELLA fun!

Thanks to @David Faulkner and @Bill Gulley to play the devils advocate against cash-flow-is-king since for my first property, house-hacking is the goal.

Really, banks DO contain mountains of cash, IF you know how to play the system, from lines against good props, to loans for commercial buildings, to personal lines of credit, to large credit card limits..and just like McD a bank is on almost every corner of ever town.

Now I will probably invest closer to home - probably in Brooklyn (Bushwick - an upcoming Williamsburg) where the prices are high and rental income is null, but I'll play the appreciation game and at the very least I can get my hands dirty screening tenants and doing maintenance work and know for a fact what I will be receiving.