You'd like your aftertax return be about that same 25k or whatever the float was. 

Has a budget been floated?

If you have good credit and the capital to float a deal from beginning to end and sometimes the exits can take 6+ months then you qualify.

I also have over 100k of available credit on credit cards I could use (I have worked so hard to create great relationships with CapitalOne and Chase after bankrupty to have this, and don't live on credit card float).

This timeline would not float in my office.

He didn't even have a For Sale banner nor even suggest they would provide one.

And right now some deals (less conservatively structured with high debt, floating rate loans, etc) are under distress and had to stop distributions.

And you could still give the seller a floating purchase price using an option simply by tying the future sales price to the then appraised value, or FMV minus 10%, or a fixed price today with a 5% uptick annually until you exercise the option.

Areas in and around: Asheville, Banner Elk, Blowing Rock, Boone, Highlands.

My wife and I and multiple other couples go every year, and we know people who float more often then that.