It probably would help if you saved some money with wholesaling or being a Realtor so you can create a nest egg to use if needed.

Not every lender offers this, but it might be a way to have your cake and eat it too.Just doing back-of-the-napkin math - if your loan is a 30yr, 200K at 4.375%, then your P&I is around 999. 

Doing it yourself can be done, but requires time and energy or it will eat your lunch.

I've used hard money, credit cards, eating ramen for a year. 

You just get paid more for your "job" (including your profit) which only eats into the profit for the investor. 

Do you have a nest egg to start investing in real estate? 

I think Capex, repairs and vacancy are going to eat up all your profits on this one unfortunately, as there is just not enough gross rent here to keep up with the expenses involved with maintaining a property.

I strongly second the words of @Aaron Gordy, those short term gains can eat into profits quickly on flips.  

Water cooler chats eat up what should be productive time. 

I'd like to make sure their first week goes well, but OMG, this is eating into any profit I might get and is starting to annoy me.