I wish I can communicate by written word what I am fully going through mentally right now...the stress...the anguish...the confusion...the pain of the realization of time wasted (11 years as a temp?). 

Most people are in poor health; should I trust them to keep their word if they're in a high percentile group for risk of stroke or heart disease?

Let's say you make mistakes that end up costing you 20% of your property value - both losses are painful, but it will be a lot easier to recover from 1 unit that multiplying it by 20.Also what if you decide the effort is isn't worth the return, unloading the property will be more effort/costly on the bigger property.While you miss out on big upside on a smaller scale, when do you think, you would be more likely to very successful on your very first property or maybe your 3rd or 4th.

I'm worried his friend will squat there until the 23rd just to be a pain in my *** and because for all I know he doesn't have another option.

We got in at a really good time and now we're seeing places all around us, being sold for 100K-200K more than what we paid, which is probably why it feels pretty painful to buy locally.

The holding costs with the hard money can be painful, and if the project takes longer than you think, it could quickly turn negative. 

New York still in a house of pain? 

In most states you can wholesale directly without any problem  In pain in the *** states like my home state of PA, you need to register an option and then release the option because in my state we cant assign contracts. 

It was a 3 month, very painful process.Because my company is set up as an S corp, I had the two years of verifiable income, but they realized I am self employed and that convoluted the process.I find it ironic that my employees have a much easier time getting conventional mortgages than I do.  

Im in LA so I feel your pain.