I know there's an art to this. 

My name is Mikey, I am a Creative/Art Director living in Los Angeles.

Art

It is both an art and a skill that will improve with time and experience. 

I google'd around for the USPAP standards after reading why he said it was a duplex, and sure enough it was a duplex according to USPAP standards, sorry agent, sorry seller, and sorry county of Alameda (he was super liberal with market rents on the 2 units that he had to call 1 unit, because it was one GIANT unit, so the rental income was actually fine). 3.

I suggest you go read "The Art of the Deal" written by Mr.

I'm excited because it's an opportunity to really flex my understanding of historical decorative arts, but I have a lot of questions too!

I doubt this will make it's way to jumbo (>$625k loans in our area) fixed rate competitive interest rate pricing loans, but I see high balance non-FTHB as likely.That's far from a certain thing either way, but generally when Fannie Mae's money will consider something, the value of that thing goes up because folks are more liberal with her money (a mortgaged offer to purchase) than with their own money (an all cash purchase).

These types of jobs or professions have many things in common I'm sure.Not only do you have a high degree of technical proficiency with numerous protocols but there is almost an "art" to employ the proper action and do so in, not just a timely manner, but very quickly, in an instant. 

With the way things are right now, you are almost guaranteed to fail, regardless of whether you go into wholesaling, fix & flips, or buy & hold.From your post, it doesn't seem like you have mastered the art of personal finance.