While my initial goal was to find a way out of the 9 to 5 rat race and continue supporting my family, an equally important objective was to demonstrate to my children that it's possible to earn a living by adding value and serving the community.I attended college in Baltimore over 30 years ago, and now my son is attending college there.

Half of my time is spent working on duties related to my initial employer and the other half of my time is spent working on this other new side of the business through the partner company.

You could always buy a rental for cash and re-refinance it and pull all of you money back out plus some maybe, also not only would you have you initial money back you would be getting a positive cash-flow from the rental, a tenant building more equity for you and some tax incentives. 

Once you set up your initial entity, you can add another entity at a discounted price.  

Then you can use 20% down-payment investor renovation loan.Finally, if you do refinance the initial property, purchase a 2-4 unit occupy one unit, house hack this think to oblivion, rent the other units out, use a 203k to remodel the interior all with simply using 3.5% down, realistically, be prepared to e all in at like 6-9% once you consider all the cash reserves and required impounds. 

I'll initially be visiting as an eyes wide open investor.

Contract is signed but sellers lawyer won't release it without receiving initial funds of $95,000Buyer may be willing to entertain borrowing more from hard money.

Those Cali evictions sound like some initial lower tenant quality/selection issues but yes I have heard of some bad ones before and especially if they don't have credit to worry about.

Had it been a serious clog, we would have charged him, since he obviously knew it was there before he moved out and we could have addressed it before it became a problem.Replaced bad stove top burner pans $27* If they were in poor condition when you moved in, that should have been part of the initial walk-through report.

My name is Charity and I'm an escrow officer in Los Angeles.