Check that you are not pinching electrical lines. 

Additionally you wont see a lot of advantages to negotiating with condo sellers if you have cash since they typically arent in a pinch to sell and the unit doesnt have the risk of failing FHA appraisal. 

Enjoy it now and plan for later when the bill comes due.Joe this is why for these reasons you delineated I have sold all my rentals at the top.. so I did not have to cut big checks to recapture.. can you imagine someone gets in a pinch has all this recapture and the market is way down..

They worked super hard for us and came through in a pinch even after we tried to use another lender to save a few bucks.

Jhamal, I'm NOT a wholesaler so take what I say with a pinch of salt. 

Hence the FI/RE penny pinching and frugality that he finds silly.  

If you are not comfortable investing in markets you don't know, and are far enough away that it would be difficult to get back and forth in a pinch, physical real estate may not be the investment for you right now.

With a pinch of background. 

"Your numbers" don't matter, the market does, so find a way to make that work so you make a market-rate return that is acceptable.Lastly, don't pinch pennies by cutting out professionals like a GC, RE Broker, and lender thinking you can do all that yourself and that you are smarter than those who do this every day professionally.

After doing some research it looked as if I have a down spout that may be going to his land that was pinched.