I believe most people advise holding the property for at least a year, but this opinion might differ from practitioner to practitioner.

I am a Nurse Practitioner by trade, and recently acquired my first investment property.

Nor would you have your gall bladder removed by a doctor who said, "you know, I've been a general practitioner, but I think I want to get into surgery. 

Does anybody have recommendations for options to finance a primary residence given the following:2 years of tax returns show plenty of income but a lot of that is my wife's nursing practitioner income and she will be leaving her current job since we are moving to a new city and probably won't have anything new lined up before hand. 

Option #2 Two young women, one a nurse practitioner and the other roommate/friend moving into town.

My wife is a nurse practitioner and between the military and the things I do on the side, we stay very busy.

The main reason I would do that is because BFD is effectively the same thing as subect-to,  but more familiar to conventional business practitioners like attorney's, title companies and some real estate agents.We had a guest speaker on the topic of doing subject-to deals at The RING from New Orleans who uses David Birdsong. 

@David Greene  as a fellow BJJ practitioner, I'm curious how often you guys get to train with your schedule? 

I mean I’m not calling my General Practitioner to operate on my heart or my mechanic to cut my hair.

SEO is going to take the longest to get results, and as many here know, if you get a bad SEO, they will do nothing and drag you on forever, telling you 'it takes time'.Adwords gives you instant results (good or bad depending on the practitioner you hire).I've never done a single piece of direct mail in my life, so I'm speaking from zero experience when I say that direct mail seems to allow you to target a specific farm area, and keep hitting it until you get a bite.