Thanks for instructions for the alert feature, it's something I've been using since the beginning & I had to decrease the amount of places I was getting alerts from haha I was getting like 30 emails a day.

Are there ways to decrease the expenses and/or increase the income? 

But I'm not completely opposed to going into temporary cc debt with the prospect of a $20, $30k or more profit in short order.I have a business line of credit that I can use as well as my personal credit cards but I'm just trying to see what I can do with the help of HM and maybe not have to touch my cards or at least not hit them too hard.

Your suspended losses will decrease your gain when you sell the house.

He stated he would do work in exchange for a decrease in rent.

An option could be to work with local hospitals that bring on temporary or traveling nurses.

This would let you buy for 3-5% down and if done right, decrease your housing costs.

And most people who buy pre-construction buy to hold because they want to use the property for themselves and they can get great rental income returns when they don't use it.However, this is temporary and, in real estate, unless you flip, you generally invest for the mid-to long-term and once Covid is in the rearview mirror, the oversupply will be gone.

Unemployment numbers are decreasing.

or does it only make sense to decrease your living expense?