I don’t want to spend a month in a dump.  

Quote from @Terrance Brewer: Quote from @Tim Delaney: I am an audio learner, so I spend a lot of time listening to various podcasts that BP puts out.

You could also look into regional banks or credit unions with experience in real estate development for middle-ground options.If I were you, I’d spend some time shopping around for the best rate/terms.

I am glad that I am not the only one who takes twice as long and spends twice as much, haha.

- We've got an owner we're about ready to terminate because we email them information that they refuses to read and always wants us to call them and spend hours talking about it.

After spending all day dodging junk mail, junk e-mail, junk texts, and junk phone calls I have very little energy left for junk BP posts!

The wrong lender can sink you, and trying to scramble to find one may skew things.

You could easily spend a lot of capital to start with something else but doing the house hack gets you started and your feet wet.

What's left after all that is your cash flow.Collecting cash flow to spend is an amateur play.

I think broader consumer taste is killing malls, which includes online shopping, but also even where people are choosing to live and how they are spending their time/money, more broadly.I worked for a company that bought a failing mall back in 2012 (online shopping was "killing retail" then too), redeveloped most of it into more open air power center and sold.