I would suggest not buying a fresh green note unless they put 20% down and have an excellent 675 or better Fico with established employment and no history of missing other payments.

Make current dining room part of the living room and remove on wall to make big eat-in kitchen. 

They mentioned that they could knock $700 off the origination fee if I went up to 5.125% - which seems like a bad deal for me over the long run.If the rest seems about right, I'm willing to eat a few hundred bucks on the origination fee.It felt as though they were trying to be honest with me when they mentioned that to make it work on their end, for such a small loan, they needed a little extra in the origination fee.

Hey Josh, My condo is next to the Settler's Green outlets.  

But perhaps you can't have your cake and eat it to.  

I am very green and have learned allot from BP, the pod casts, and books, but have yet to do a deal.My question is this: how can a first time'r best use 100k to invest in real estate? 

I'll leave it as an exercise for readers to see who has raised venture funding and who is syndicating their own raise by eating their own dog food crowdfunding it.  

I'll admit, I'm green to the business as well. 

I think alot of scenes are staged on that show like the time they moved the big green dumpster and it so happened to roll down the hill and hit a piece of junk car and destroyed it. either way its entertaining its not a learning show forsure.

Hunger will make you hunt longer and harder to insure that you not only eat but eat well.!