I'm obviously new to this and very early in the process, so I could very well be missing something obvious here and/or not have the creative muscles yet to think through another form of house hacking.

Closed on my second rental in muscle shoals last week and about to put my third flip on the market in Sheffield in about 2 weeks.

But some have obviously tried to crush my hopes of getting deals by flexing large corporate muscle.

Yes build up cash from a W2 but don't wait to build up the muscles to learn how to establish partnerships and use OPM to get deals done.

Once you are in more it is like a muscle the more you strengthen it the stronger it gets.  

And it's a new muscle for you to exercise, so expect it to be weak at start.

Financing isn't your problem here but rather competition in the form of cash, foreign money eager to get into the US and developers who can muscle you out (here the financing does come into play as a developer is a safer bet and a long term return client).If you focus closer in to the city go for the best property possible.

If a tragic event happened in their life at a specific time the growth could have stopped at that point.A therapist allows you to flex your mental muscle and break the legacy of bad habits from the past.We all pick up good habits and bad habits from our parents.The goal is too get rid of the bad with better solutions and keep or refine the good things to make better.Your son needs to change his environment.I wish you all the best and will pray for you.

We are all very fortunate to live in this great countryHere is a nice quote:You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness.

Boy, I can't tell you how many times a tenant would bring in their dad or mom to view the property with them, and then at the signing of the lease, try to put the muscle on me.