Especially friends, family, coworkers, but also cab drivers, you name it. 

This has been a huge driver for us. 

This means they are in the driver seat in regard to collateral and means even more risk in regard to a revolving line of credit.

One of my buds who is a bus driver earning 65,000 per year showed me a check he got during the 2 year program for 65K for a rehab deal.

@Samuel McCart it is good that you seem to know what you want to do (wholesale/flip) before becoming a landlord, but I would ask yourself why you set an arbitrary number of deals before you keep one that will ultimately be the driver that provides you freedom.

But as was said above... if it hasnt sold... you are in the drivers seat. 

It has been a few years since I've worked on a deal there, so maybe there are more drivers now than I realize now.

Since your job as an engineer will be the main driver for downpayments (at least for a while) you don't want to do anything that puts this job at risk. 3) If you just paid down your student loans, how long would it take you?

It's no fault to the builders, efficiency is not yet a market driver, so they have not incorporated it into their product.The only highly efficient homes around here (2-Passivhaus and a handful of millennial homes) were custom builds and higher end - with the exception of the new Habitat home.

It was nice to visit... but the first 30 minutes of being in town was the hotel van driver telling me how worried he was about the storm they were expecting that was on its way.It all made me a bit nervous... but the storm just passed on by.