Most lenders will let you count 75% of the other rents to boost your qualification income, but with a catch.

But my parents waited, knowing this family would never be able to catch up with his salary without it being a real struggle. 

The catch seems to be that there's 0 room for value add or forced appreciation.

We've got to catch up man!

I have to catch myself sometimes from doing work that's not worth it long term as I won't be there forever.

The catch here is I have my unfair advantage of potentially being able to find tenants for this area that others could not.

Being a profitable investor is a role you can perform largely alone but it will take you a lot longer and you probably won't be nearly as profitable as you would have been with a good team and it won't be nearly as much fun or as robust a structure as you won't have the under-pinning of relationships to catch you if you falter at some point and need support in one form or another.So - I would suggest you start working on your foundation stone.

To quote Ken McElroy, I don't want to catch a falling knife.

With a website like Facebook, most people are already spending time here every day, so there’s a great opportunity to catch the attention of buyers/renters through a different (and hugely popular) avenue of the internet.

We'll catch you next time @Alyssa Dyer.