It is more about character and self determination than inner "stories" that would almost never materialize...

Be fun to talk old Vegas stories again and see what the market doing these days. 

Keep in mind things can happen, for example the value of the house could change in the meantime, messing with that ratio.Also, with an FHA loan the mortgage insurance is more expensive, and if I remember correctly it's FIVE years before you can apply to have it taken off.The moral of the story is just put down 20%.

There are many people that can help fund deals from HML to brokers whom will be willing to sit down with you and give you their success stories, what they've done, who've they worked with and so on and so forth.2.)

I mainly wanted to hear other people's first investment stories so I could get some inspiration. :) This site and the forums have taught me a lot already but I have some more I need to learn!

According to the recently released Nationwide Health of the Housing Market Report, Philadelphia follows Pittsburgh, PA and Cleveland, OH as the top housing markets in nation.See links below for more information.http://www.marketwatch.com/story/nationwide-unveils-broad-measure-of-us-housing-landscape-that-signals-healthiest-outlook-since-2001-2015-03-31http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/where-are-the-healthiest-us-housing-markets/vi-AAajaf4?

i have a slight issue and have heard horror stories about leading i just started my llc for my investing business and found a great opportunity to buy a commercial mixed use building located in my home town in new york. now i guess my question really is what do you think the best method to finance this deal is without any assets in the lcc at the moment 

While it doesn't have your kid element, our story does have the crazy predictable components of life.I too am looking for an opportunity to work on this full time so we I can stay home and raise our future kids.Feel free to pm me if you want to talk.

We had an additional $17.5K in private lending come to us after we made the deal, and we budgeted that for the reno. 9 months and $30K later (as the story always goes) we had a tenant moved in and ready to pay rent.

I have no relevant Real Estate story to share to this post ... but as a newbie, just taking everything in, I want to THANK YOU all for this thread.