My issue, went through a custody battle with baby momma and The state, I won. 55k later I'm in debt (credit card) up to my eyeballs and I'm struggling.  

Make your offer, Do include a letter with all the reason for your desire for the property, the reasons for investing for your child (maybe a photo of the baby) and your plans for the duplex in the future.Give it all you have if you want the deal!

However, you mentioned your wedding, so make sure you move quickly because as your family grows, multifamily living can get complicated trust me, I know, our baby is 5 weeks old. 

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I found a buy and hold on MLS, I found it, agent made contact and got offer accepted, then baby sat it through close.

Looking for baby steps and mentoring at this point, with the ultimate goal of becoming the investor.

There are still non-hard money i/o ARMs in the residential space, but not for baby loan amounts AFAIK, and they close slower because the end-lender is going to do a crap ton more due diligence before giving you enough rope to hang yourself (which is why it is not worth doing that due diligence unless it's a larger loan amount). 

@Shondell Alford Here is my "starting up" collection:Read http://greeneincome.com/index....Read Dave Ramsey book "The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness." and complete the baby steps there.Read Scott Trench’s book “Set for Life.”Finish the school and get your degree - you'll need it later, especially if it's business management.Get a job first where you have W2 income.

Just the sleep dep talking I guess, combined with a rough year in landlording paradise with an unusual amount of churn as well as unexpected cap ex: a gnarly eviction, a tenant that OD'd in a unit, a hailstorm that trashed a $30k roof, another hail storm that did a lot of random damage with hail chunks a tenant described as being cauliflower head/cannonball sized which broke a solid oak deck handrail among many other things on the property, a sewer line that needed to be replaced which required jack hammering up the slab in a kitchen I had just finished fully remodeling, plus the new baby and the two other babies it's been quite a long year already so far.