Yes if you want to live in the hustle and bustle of a major city you are going to pay and likelihood of Buying before 35-40 is rare, but if you lived in a more modest area there are still plenty of areas where a nice home is under $250k and you have the ability to work remote for a company and make higher wages than you would if you were working local in that area.25-30 years ago my guess is if you did the studies the average age of buying a home was not much different today, but today everyone thinks everything in life should happen immediately - the instant gratification factor.https://www.stylight.com/Magazine/Home-And-Living/Average-Age-First-Time-Home-Buyer-May-Surprise/

Perhaps the most dangerous for investors that are not aware is if the City requires Prevailing Wage which can instantly increase your construction costs 30-40%.

This is something I would be very upfront with your lender on because it will shut down your closing in an instant.

That will shield the resale from the seller (until after the sales are recorded and become public records) and will result in a nice payday for you.

It may take you 30 minutes to an hour to generate a cash offer for one property, You want to get so good at this that you'll know instantly if you've got a deal or not.

.- Look forward to that future "payday"!

I have a coffee maker / Keurig and provide instant coffee, tea, and different flavored sweeteners that I get from Marshalls or TJ Max. 

Good deals go extremely fast, so we have to put one of our buyers to them instantly if we know it's worth going forward with.

Thanks to your thread I've realized that I liken Dave Ramsey to lukewarm pizza:Cold pizza would be having a lot of bad debt (credit cards, payday loans, etc.) and paying interest on that debtLukewarm pizza is Dave Ramsey: not having debt and paying cash for everything.

This probably wouldn't apply to this deal, but with some low-equity deals...Buyers may not always look to instant equity as their #1 criteria for buying.