I am in my early 30's, have a good corporate job and have saved about 30k in cash reserves.

Only reason I'd paint is to go for the country kitchen look with a nice creame colored paint and worn iron hardware.

I think most people, myself included, waste their 20's having a good time.There is Canadian content out there, it's just harder to find!

It's just a numbers game and find where you can shave the numbers and have someone else move the numbers where you do not excel.Good luck!

I picked up another in Indy. nice little house that is old....much older than i usually buy and we know we have foundation issues going in but the team is confident they can makes this place shine within a slightly inflated budget.other deal still pending but i should hear more shortly.KC is just happening right now and its not for a lack of trying. i hope to get one picked up soon.update on goal: 2 of 6 picked up this year thus far (note i am in 3rd month of my fiscal so on track for 8)update on mindset: it dawned on me the other day when chatting with my wife just what a surplus of adds/year means. every additional add shaves 2months off retirement goal date (45th bday). so if i can stretch to 9 additions this year and next, i will be looking at a 44th bday. if i really scale up then i can knock this way down....love it!

Just have to separate the wheat from the chaff, the cream from the crop well, you know.

Trina S. Have

Congrats also on doing a solo deal belly to belly with the seller.A couple of my takeaways as a dusty old LL thinking more of selling than buying these days-1) When you sell a property in a different market as an absentee owner, you may be a motivated seller and get creamed by a local investor. 2) Don't accept VA or FHA loans from your buyer.

Probably would not do it as is right now, but it is close enough that I'd see if I could get the price down slightly more and maybe shave a few basis points of the rate to get the payment down a touch.

If you had carpet there it looks like the door would not even open.If you do not know how to adjust the front entry doors or shave off some of the bottom and apply weatherstripping a handyman can sometimes do it for a decent price.