People who have been around the block a time or two and can protect his interests.

I bought a brand new 4/2 1910sqft block home for $180,000 on 2009.

Some of us have hundreds and hundreds of thousands in equity in things and are ok with it, especially if a commercial asset where equity stripping is really painful.  

Hi BP,I just looked at a house in DC with @Cassidy Burns and would love your help figuring out how to buy it.It is listed for $700k, needs ~$50k of work, is 6 blocks away from metro on a quiet street.Based on online PITI calculations, it must bring in $5k in rent to stand on its own feet, which I believe it can, especially with short terms rentals like Airbnb.I have $50k to invest, and am looking to buy and hold.The issue: I may not qualify for a loan more than $500k.What do you suggest?

A particular advantage I have is that I live in a huge ranch townhome that was built on a block where an elementary school was 10 years ago.

First off, is it really so hard to just ignore, block, or otherwise not engage the people you find so bothersome?

It takes some studying and that pain, but otherwise it's cheap to maintain.

I have not been unduly impressed with BECU loan process but have not been so painful to need to move to another lender yet, at least for conventional loans.

I may put a neighborhood (if its a popular well known one), a block # (xxx block of main st).

get you a good CPAlook at all variables on investments and what you can right off- office space-ect..now look at a way to get the w-2 earner investing most of that income pre tax or post tax and live under the corp umbrellathere are a lot of scenarios to consider but I do here your pain no matter what theirs(the irs) will always get paidHA!