If you lived else where, say 20 minutes away, would it still be on the table? 

When closing the A-B transaction do you need to bring money to the table only to be paid back with the B-C transaction?

I ended up buying a 2 bedroom row house in Mountain View and renting out the second room. 

@Patricia Thomas you never know until you sit down and lay the cards on the table!  

One market shift while your chips are on the table and you can lose way more than you calculated in gaining.

Find out when and where and make sure you attend with a nice table of food or rented inflatable bounce house for the kids in the area.  

In Excel, the function is "PMT", and it would basically look like:=-pmt(rate, term, PV)rate is the interest rate in percent per monthterm is the term in monthsPV (present value) is the starting value of the loan.On a financial calculator, there will be some button that does it, and you'll enter the three numbers.If worse comes to worse, you can buy a payment table book.Or, use a "money factor" and do it like car salesman.

Who knows what I could possibly bring to the table one day for you because you once helped me.

Most will have little more than mountains of student loan debt and resumes to pass around.

We will be at one of the BIG tables in the middle, I might make a sign or something so people dont wander and wonder where the BP meetup is...Denver meetups will be at 6pm: Gather Bar at Galvanize 1062 Delaware Street, Denver, CO 80204