In my situation since I am repaying over $400 every 2 weeks on my TSP loan, I dropped my bi-weekly contribution down to 5% (the minimum if you want 100% of the employer match).

This past week was a pretty good week for my real estate business in getting several new houses under contract. 

I'll give you $25 for one week of xx).

The owner's mother passed away a few weeks ago and they want to sell asap for cash and get back to Florida. 

They called and asked which day I wanted to close on the 4th week after I won the auction. 

Do funds invest in portfolios that already have assets or does the fund, fund acquisition and are they nimble enough to fund tight timelines (weeks instead of months)? 

We were approaching our finals weeks at our University and our lease was coming to an end - so to save us the stress of trying to find an apartment in the middle of that (we had a very limited budget,) they offered for us to stay with them for a month or two for free.

Through these two events plus and enormous rabbit hole tumble into real estate advise books like the ones on this website (thanks again Brandon) along with an avalanche of YouTube videos and other business self help books like “The 4-Hour Work Week” I’ve developed the confidence and put in place the systems to help pull the trigger on my first two buy and hold rental property deals.

So, I have research being completed each week to 4 different groups of targeted potential sellers.

The bike lanes were just completed in my neighborhood a few weeks back (much to the chagrin of nearly everyone that lives here).