Justin I agree I'm having another contractor friend of mine take a look but I'm not holding my breath I'm already looking at other deals.

I wanted time to breathe and didn’t want to rush into a decision so I rented a 2019 f150 for 30 days for $800 and I get up to 3,000 miles.

-you can close in 1/3 of the time and that gives an advantage over other offers-you avoid having a bank breathing down your neck-you don’t have to deal with and pay for appraisal or lenders title policy -you can sometimes get a better deal but in a hot market it doesn’t really help.

Something will always come up, but knowing how to deal with it (and remembering to take a deep breathe) is key.

Unlike college loans, if your business ventures go up in smoke, you can start again with a clean slate.It's only the end of your world, when you cant breathe.

After 55 years in Seattle, yes lived in the city, not the burbs, when Seafair was the only game in town; well, we also had the Sonics, anyway we've had enough with aforementioned socialism and landlord hate being spewn about, sold all of our investments and moved a few years ago to landlord liked, low taxed, free to breath, great growing economy, sunny, Very Profitable, friendly Arizona and haven't looked back.You hit the screwball on the head with your comment: "The city council is largely ignorant and socialist as is the current mayor.

  :)  Nobody is a diehard windows fan, but man Apple could put out some lousy products that people would be defending to their last breath. 

I want to eat, breath, sleep Real estate I am 25 years old and I have no excuse’s on why I can’t or shouldn’t thrust myself out into the real world and not some factory.

In So Cal, 100k/year might not get you very far but it should pay the bills and give you breathing room.

It helps to be reminded to "just breathe." ;-)