Luckily I am close to even on this unit already so if I have to take the 2 month lot rent bump as well as what he owes me I will survive.

Sometimes survival is the best one can hope for, but if opportunity comes up I won't hesitate to take advantage of it.

I lived in plenty of studio "micro kitchens" and survived, so what do I need?

Companies like Google or Facebook survive on advertising, which is one of the first expenses that companies cut in difficult time.

I survived/thrived buying good assets below market value and repurposing. 

They've been in the business a long time and have survived and thrived in the best and worst times in our economic cycles.

I'm a cancer surviver in remission since 2012.I'd been interested in investing in real estate for awhile now but I been scared because when I finally decided to start in 2008 with a single family home that was a shortsale for 500,s I got it for 420,s I was happy at the time because I was going to remodel it and sell it but the market took another hit and I ended upside down.

This info is essential to survival in the flipping game.

Crunch your numbers and make sure your deal can survive an assessment increase to $250k. 

Its just really hard for me to believe that the only way to survive in Real Estate when starting out is to have a second job.