Something I want to do, is a potential BRRRR on an SFR or 2-4 unit in the Midwest.

However, it would provide us with the necessary funds for the repairs and potentially a down payment on another property.

I was envisioning a two part calculation for the monthly mortgage payment - I see it as a VA loan analogy with no money down but the loan structured with two interest rates (one for the TSP down payment and one for the 30 yr fixed rate mortgage).I guess the real question to ask myself (using your situation as the model, assuming positive cash flow once TSP is repaid) is whether I am okay tolerating the potential 60 months of negative cash flow to get to the positive cash flow after 5 years.- Maybe if it gets the deal going and leads to a cash out refinance before the 5 year mark that allows me to speed up the TSP pay off.Wow - Great food for thought. 

I’ve been searching in the Sherman/abilene areas for potentially starting out.

Your husband's business is an active one and perhaps more prone to a potential lawsuit.

In other states, attempting to "help" homeowners in foreclosure (or in imminent danger of default) can put you into the crosshairs of an attorney general or worse, a DA.I've enjoyed being part of personally exposing scammers that prey on people to strip them of the equity in their homes.

The ACH transfers are slow but reliable.Cash: dangerous to handle that much cash, easy to lose, have stolenChecks: bounced check fees are a painPaypal and some other services: I have heard horror stories of accounts being frozen for weird reasons

In parallel start talking to other potential candidate GC’s to see what their costs and schedules would be like (make sure you ask them how hard it is to transfer permits).  

It is the rate your qualifications get you.Buying the rate down and a lender credit are the corresponding poles to the middle "par"Generally speaking, when your originator is looking at his pricer, there will be a list of potential options.

Look at lists of properties that are on the Sheriff Sale, and Tax Sales, as some of those could have assumable mortgages, and provide a list of potential assumable mortgages, where the owners are potentially losing their properties.David KrulacBigger Pockets Podcast guest #82