Your biggest problem is your start up capital is way too low if you’re not willing to use hard money. 500k – 750k is a much more realistic amount of capital you would need to self-fund your own deals.

ALWAYS run thorough, realistic, numbers on all expenses and reserves.7.

But there seems to be a lot of sellers testing the market, listing high even with updates needed, and not many of those are interested in negotiating realistic numbers, just seeing if there are buyers still  willing to pay too much.

Is this goal realistic?

Realistically you are selling furniture and the fact that it comes already set up.

Quote from @Gavin Gainey: Be realistic.

So, realistically $32K is my MAO, that's all I can offer the seller to make this work worthwhile of doing.

. $1100/mo being the maximum installment they could realistically afford with 35K income.

Quote from @Stuart Udis: #5 isn't realistic for most of us, particularly men.

A realistic time line would also be important to determine. 4.