I tend to lean that way as well and don't mind jumping into the trenches and getting my hands dirty as I'm also a general & manufactured home contractor, manufactured home dealer and developer, real estate broker, investor and property manager.

Home Depot is just too expensive Check the inventory of your local used appliance dealer as another option.

If I didn't care, I'd simply become a drug dealer.  

(Hint, after 5, you are a de facto dealer in some states).

Well, I think a lot of people, who complain about gentrification and higher values and taxes forget that before investors came into the are, there were prostitutes and drug dealers on every corner and tons of break-ins. 

I did just fine w my fourplex and it had heroin dealers occupying it when I closed.

. $10K would be cash in a reserve account and the other $10K would be for dealer's license, insurance and other initial expenses.

INVESTORS place THEIR ASSETS AT RISK, PERIOD.All the folks on here who don't have two nickels to rub together want to refer to themselves as investors, so do those with some money who deal in RE or any other business, but they are OPERATORS or DEALERS, they are nothing near an INVESTOR.You and other brokers do all kinds of activities in notes, you use other peoples money in various ways, you also have a license, or I hope they do, and have regulatory oversight somewhere, but individuals must use their own freaking money or assets, borrowing funds beyond their means to conduct note transactions is brokering.I have no idea what may have been said that got that response from you, but if you disagree with what I said here you need to drop way back to some basic legal definitions.The reason so many people on this site don't get it is because they never start from ground level, they assume they know and jump in to something assuming things.

That's like going to a car dealer and asking to pay $17,500 for a brand new $25,000 car.

Dealers who have as of now purchased another house will have alleviation from paying two home loans without a moment's delay, and in a moderate housing business sector with numerous homes available to be purchased, this may be their best choice.