Negotiate closer to $170K with creative financing is your best bet. 

Do you want your son to bet the financial outcome of his 20s on this seller's ability to make good choices? 

I have around $100K in liquid capital and access to a $50K HELOC at 6% for the next 10 months before it transitions to a variable rate.I have a unique situation where I earn a living through sports betting, which limits my ability to show traditional income growth.

@Justin Sherman your best bet for cash flow is to go with a STR in the upper part of your house hack.

It turns out the machine was allowing free washes, and with a replacement part should be back up and running. 

(If it were mine I would try something like this)Are you seeking an alcohol free environment to live in?

Your best bet are the (relatively speaking) higher cash flow markets in the midwest and southeast and perhaps a few in the rust belt.

Quote from @Michael Calvey: Airbnb just dropped their Q4 numbers, and something caught my eye that hosts need to pay attention to: while they're raking in $2.5B in revenue (up 12%), they're dumping massive resources into platform "improvements" - 535 of them to be exact.As someone who follows the hosting space closely, here's what's interesting: they're clearly betting big on AI and tech upgrades, but what does this mean for hosts' bottom lines?

Selling off part of the land could free up some cash without losing the whole property.

Your best bet is to find and contact all of the top local wholesalers and go to work for one of them and see what they do right and wrong and see if it's even a business you like.