But your attitude is incredibly helpful, especially since my issue is small potatoes compared to yours.It's posts like yours that help me realize that life is failure and gain and learning and growing.

I understand that this is small potatoes for most lenders and they just don't even want to bother, but thought i'd ask anyway. 

Small potatoes to get the 10k plus in instant equity.

But I'm small potatoes still.

Buy an income property with the mindset that you will dump it like a hot potato when it stops fitting into your business model.

Yea, yea, small potatoes compared to Durham, Raleigh and Cary just north of there but still an interesting prospect.

The eggs are very good (and healthy, do some research) and chickens are easy to to take care of.A garden is not that hard, and provides lots of chemical free food (if you do not put chemicals) and teaches kids where food comes from.We have a root cellar for storing potatoes, carrots, roots, etc.

Of course then they go home they sit in front of the TV eating potato chips and wonder when their ship is going to come in.

But then, I'm a small potatoes landlord :D

Because sure I'd get the fees and interest and what not if they pay it back, but it seems to be rather small potatoes, especially for someone like me who is trying to build cash reserves quickly to continue reinvesting.