In most states, auction bidders don’t have any opportunity to view the inside of the property before they bid, let alone hire a professional inspector to inspect the property.

I've been pre-approved, but that was through my personal credit.

You'll never get good advice from real estate professionals who think aggressive house hacking is renting out one side of a duplex. 

Not even sure where you are pulling 30% from...Taking money from a traditional retirement account(non-Roth) now or later is subject to income tax at your marginal income tax bracket.Any 'planning' around distributions that you can do later can also be done now.If you want to take money out in a year where you are in a lower tax bracket(result of going back to school, taking a year off from work to travel, a year where you have a lot of losses from real estate via Real Estate Professional Status, etc).Also, hard to say what your income / tax rates will be when you retire.

It really does depend on what your target audience is, for example if it's tech professionals that could potentially change what works best.

I could if it was education for my W2 but not real estate because I'm not a real estate professional.   

I was studying biology pre-med and was not happy with what I was doing, skipping class and just being a dumb college kid.

You are absolutely right about other travel professionals beside travel nurses.

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But it will not be the same way I was winning when rates were 3% (or maybe it is - but reality is there will be some changes to the business as 3% rates is like a professional team playing against a pee-wee team).