The current COAs areA. buy a house with cash do a live in flip over 2 years, refinance with VA loan take the money and continue to investB. rent and take that fat stack of cash and invest in a 5-10 unit apartment and start to build the empire.

But due to Harvey, even my best contractors were overloaded with fat margin work from insurance companies and non-investors from Houston to West Louisiana - I was SOL and on the search for a new crew.Lucked out a couple weeks later and was able to assemble a small crew to help with all the finishing bits and pieces.

Take a hard look at your finances and trim the fat.

(first they came for the trans-fats, then the soda size, etc...) 

@Eric MatsonIf you wait to invest then investing will go on a back burner once you get a license.

I can remember one investor, whose buyers got their LTV cut, the deal was real fat.

Man just because I called you a fat lazy good for nothing jabroni you put me on ignore how dare you I thought we were friends :shoot: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

I actually personally jacked my rate up to the tippy top when I purchased, for a big fat lender credit that would cover the IRRRL refinance six months later.

Asbestos: I plan on replacing the (3) old oil-fired steam boiler systems with newer higher efficiency natural gas burners with conventional baseboard (steam conversion).

Put it on the back burner and follow up with them twice a year, make sure they have your contact  info.