These squatters don’t deserve my sympathy at all—one non-paying tenant even drives a BMW SUV and has never paid a dime!

Other risks, the contractor walking off the job, a storm hitting and delaying the project for weeks, someone breaking into the home and stealing stuff (which happened just the other day to a client of mine), a squatter, or drunk driver driving into the house (happened a lot at my old job as a firefighter lol).

Drive around and called the realtor How did you finance this deal?

My educational background is in science, but my personal background is rooted in the Midwest where I grew up on a farm and gained a skillset in everything mechanical. 

Class D is mostly rentals (another tip to look at owner occupied stats and/or if the neighborhood is identified for revitalization), the tenants are outside smoking, they are talking to neighbors and solicitors, it is a completely different vibe that is pretty noticeable just driving through.

Drive around and called the realtor How did you finance this deal?

Any "spreadsheet freaks" out there are gonna be amazed when you dig deep into crunching the numbers. 

Or $30,000+ by EOY 2025.If you don't like Bartending, how about being a waiter, busboy, driving for uber, or some other side gig? 

To find deals that make sense, you need to dig deep, get creative or create large value add.

As i was driving through the neighborhood scoping the area out i noticed a new shiny fire department.