I was fortunate enough to accept an offer from an engineering company as an Industrial Engineer where I will be making more in income which I of course intend to use for my investing.

Fortunately, most of these conversations are pretty basic. 

Lot's opportunities for fortunate accidents. 

I had someone call me about wanting to do their first real estate deal, they had been working hard for almost a year and had nothing to show for it, they seemed ambitious so I told them I would give them a task and when they completed it to call me back, they did this a couple days in a row so I started taking them serious and I told them exactly how to buy a house and sell it, they had a little good fortune and in just under 3 weeks they sold their first house and made a profit of $37,000 and they didn't have any money of their own, and I didn't give them any money, just advice over the phone.My point is that they could have worked a job for those 3 weeks and saved their pay checks... so I no longer think that saving money is the best way to start.

It's good to know it's there if I ever need a HELOC for future deals, but for now I've been fortunate to find financing other ways for flips I've done since. 

The property is in Auburn AL, and I was very fortunate because the value on that property has risen by about $45,000 in the last 20 months due to the market getting crazy hot here. 

I totally understand what you’re saying, fortunately I’m currently renting so I don’t have to worry about that right now.

I'm not a fortune teller so I will just keep contributing and hoping that my investor is still in business for a reason.

We have been like been living in this house for the past 3 years and have been very fortunate with both the house and the location.

We were also fortunate that township was doing sewer work and they did fix our problem with no cost.Total repair expenses - $30kARV  - $330kBefore pictureAfter PictureWe refinance and got HELOC from that spread and rolled into other property.