I would stash that 3K/month until you have a larger pot to pull from. 

I'm fearing they are just gonna keep the money until I can evict and then they'll have a nice stash to put down on another place and make off with 4 or 5 months rent owed to me. 

I'd suggest continuing to stash cash and dive deep into the education process. 

Cash caches: Some people are in the habit of stashing cash or traveller's checks in various hiding places.64.

If you have $20K stashed away you are definitely not looking for a huge purchase with either CASH offers or even financed offers might be scarce, depending on where you are looking.

lots of properties you can get in the price range you are looking or just really comes down to the type of property and area you want to stash your money in.

I second moving home with the family and stashing cash. 

Thanks for kind welcome.My wife is risk adverse to a fault and I’m quite conservative too so the primary Residence is out of bounds plus we are expecting our second Bub in December so my wife will be off work for a while anyway so for now I’m stashing cash in the ETFs

The market changes from time to time and having stashed cash important.3.

Continue to stash away money and don't be afraid to invest some of it in educational content and/or groups.