@Jack B. look into retiring in a socialized medicine country like Canada or Germany.

All my friends in the area are in medicine.

I am a nurse and work full time, but wanting to explore this lovely world of investing, yet having no idea where to start (being as my education is medicine).

Not pretty, but I've used it particularly on the inside of medicine cabinets that start to peel.

From tech, medicine, marketing, even to having a 54% population with religious affiliations.

Cleveland specifically is big in medicine.

Your ability to make good money in medicine is quite within your control and your ability to invest without a lot of capital or know how or time is quite limited.

I found a wonderful roommate/ rental situation for my first year in LA, but with my decent income to help me qualify for a good amount (also, my fiance is a civilian sports medicine physician) and VA loan capabilities, I want to jump into the deep end with the sharks of LA real estate.

Here in Ohio, you must ask a pharmacist for the medicine and can only buy a small quantity.

You would be sitting negative based on the difference of cash in for you an cash out from the DP, and it would take too long for you to recover that difference in using the spread of the mortgages....not to mention the fact your existing lender wouldn't let you take on a mortgage (seller financing) without paying them off first.Actually, as I'm writing this, and thinking more about this, I would bail on this and take my medicine.