If one of the houses is paid off I can get there faster and only need 10 houses.Hope this helps.Also there is no harm in starting to look now. 

I will say trying to sneak in the back door on an agent could be harmful if they chose to pursue it.

@Justin BearceYou can’t borrow 100% and use an FHA loan.You can get a gift from a family member with the stipulation that you don’t have to pay it back and that it won’t cause financial harm to them.If your friend is going to lend you money the bank won’t go for that because you’ll be essentially 100%.Also.

Often if you have a valid reason for taking some action other than playing games, they'll likely buy it, depends on how good your initial reason was or is, especially if there is no harm and done well. :)

You could honestly go down 15% off of the ARV of a similarly valued piece of land in your area and what is the harm done?

If I operated inappropriately and legitimately caused harm to someone, believe it or not, I wouldn't need a judge to tell me to pay that person.

And if there is more than one telephone in your family, maybe it's time to consolidate to sharing just one.I know these aren't fun choices, but if it's between TV/cell phone/Internet and being able to eat, I would choose the eating.As for your creditors, unless they're the type who will cause you physical harm if you don't pay, I would suggest not paying.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

I work full time in chemical sales as well as have a side business in which i have a crew who does repair work for utility companies.

Lead safe implies there could still be lead paint, but it is encapsulated so the outer surface is not as harmful.