@Dan Sundberg Stumbled upon your post while looking up posts regarding add-ons in Sacramento County.

I know this is 3 yrs old but I just stumbled on it. 

good approach, but you need to ensure you have room to stumble, otherwise your whole stack of cards may fall.Take equity for downpayment, use income to increase your borrowing power. 

She happen to stumble onto RE when purchasing her first "forever" home after the bubble and once I moved back in the area she sold it for over $100k profit.

I do have a lot of construction knolegwlege and a bit of real estate investing know how but I'm stumbling through it also at times , that's what is so great about this site, that you can ask seasoned investors and learn from their mistakes and hopefully not make the same ones yourself..

I stumbled across the BiggerPockets podcast and was instantly hooked - love the wealth of information here.

I was doing research last night on paint remover and stumbled upon several that were reportedly safe & effective on wood.

Hello all, I just stumbled upon a listing in (of all places) the local newspaper classifieds.

Consequently, the W2 job might be the great weapon against market changes, personal stumbling blocks, and other highs/lows in business.So what now?

I "only" had access to about $280,000 in capital.I looked at a lot of different markets and ran into the same issue you describe (again, recall this was 2019 when it should have been like shooting fish in a barrel).Finally, I stumbled on Detroit and the numbers looked fantastic.