As many people have mentioned, open carry either makes you a target or makes others feel like you are the threat.On the subject of using a gun vs hands vs knives, it is most important to remember your brain is going to be your most powerful weapon.

I'm under the process of buying a house, not using a realtor.Contacted the seller through email and responds to me always.

Purchase price: $274,995 Cash invested: $81,011 One-stop real estate investment, using a company that provides soup-to-nuts service (sales, closing, funding, property management).

Using a strategy like a 1031 exchange can help defer this tax if you reinvest the proceeds into another property.

If your paying out of pocket I would suggest considering using a construction loan.

I am not currently using a property manager, so any other extra insulating layer that I can get is useful to me.  

SarahI’m gonna give a slightly different answer than others, figure out where/how you want to live within reason & than figure out a way to use strategies to make that somewhat affordable but using a strategy 1st approach is really risky in this market, because it might take 4-5 years to even break even vs renting, so you want to find a place you’d be happy to live for 4-5 years & than find strategies like house hacking that make that more affordable. 

For simplicity, I did not include closing costs or loan points in the purchase price numbers, but did include a fee of 10% of the sale price to cover closing costs, commissions, and minor repairs.ModelsBelow are two tables showing the IRR for the traditional rental, using a 20% down payment, and the BRRRR models using a 75% LTV loan.

For starters, you are using a fake name, you have been asked about it multiple times and are not answering the question.You just posted the following___This is in direct conflict with what you posted below.

If you have a lot of equity in your home I would first evaluate if it's possible to leverage any of that equity to acquire another asset that would produce more cash using a home equity loan or line of credit3.