Do I gamble my last dime on a single-family cash cow, or do I roll the dice on a flip and hope Lady Luck is on my side?

A lot of business travel, younger people in town for concerts, sports, etc. 

Real estate is a contact sport. 

If you really want the property and don't mind a small gamble put down an amount of earnest money that you will not be upset to lose and that if you were in the seller's shoes would make you feel OK about taking the property off the market for 60 days and make it non-refundable to be conveyed to Seller upon offer acceptance. 

It's worked because our values haven't changed, but our committment to each other has only grown.Multifamily is a team sport, especially as you get larger.

I had a few appraisals come back from Akron/Clv markets and had the appraiser comment that it is a "down market".If you are targeting the 50k purchases with the 20k rehab and then hopping to refi out afterward you are taking a gamble because if you do not get the 100k value after the rehab you can get stuck in the project or be forced to take a mortgage with a terrible rate.Keep your purchases 80k and up and try to make sure your project costs are over 100k on everything so you can be pretty confident that you'll get the 100k value afterward.

I would have lessons with his daughter after school, while he would be in the next room of their very nice home drinking, watching sports, and throwing things at the TV.

However, it’s a gamble.

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies that spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies that spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.