Sorry to hear of your misfortune, but as someone who plans to begin rehab flips early 2016, I originally planned to do the majority of the rehab myself other than things that need licenses and the more I read, the more I keep realizing that contracting the work by professionals may really be the way to go and will help relieve some spare time for more important investment strategies.Thanks for sharing your story with us, I could read "failed" attempts all day because those are by far my favorite learning strategy.Good luck on your future endevours!

One idea as well is if the unit you live in has multiple rooms, you can rent out your spare bedrooms via VRBO / Airbnb as well.

Both parties spoke different languages- the lender spoke ROI, ROE, WAC, discounted cash value, etc. while the project developer spoke excavation and grading costs, the price to import and compact soil, installation of curb and gutter, etc.

I could go on and on but I will spare you.I am 59 years old and I found BP about 8 months ago and I am still trying to decide what to do.  

For now I would advise staying single and applying all your spare time to growing wealth.

Unfortunately the only time it's happened to me was when somebody was trying to spare themselves the expense of a demolition.I would use the Michael Q. approach to such a situation.  

(and even got to crash in their spare room the other night in San Francisco after staying up too late with them after BART!)

With working full time and going to school I didn't have much spare time to engage on the site. 

I have been renting the spare rooms in my house.

But I hope to spend my spare time to learn as much as I can about real estate.