The OP has invested in "cash flow" following the "2% rule" in dead end cities.

I know it was mentioned a couple of times by Brandon on the podcast that he didn’t have a w-2 job when he refinanced, so I was wondering what the banks based their criteria on and how he was able to get the dead equity out of the property.Maybe if someone could run a rudimentary expample, I would better understand the nuances.Thanks!

Geometry and Algebra...and I'm dead serious.

Well, if it makes you feel any better, it wasn't that long ago that you literally worked until you were dead; the idea of 20-40 years of leisure is really new.

Perhaps after brainstorming with him, there is a way for you to sign a long-term lease, or at least cut a deal with an option to buy in the next several years and get the new owner to stay in the game, at least having some rent coming in, instead of you moving, and he has nothing but dead capital, in a building that he pays taxes on, with no tenant?

You're wasting time on a dead beat deal.

If there are drug dealers out front, a geo disaster like fire and drought ahead, or something that smells dead you need boots on ground.Don't pay for a class that is available for free.

While some aspects of what I say would probably also hold true where you are, it's a dead certainty that not all of my advice would.

Also, with a double close, if I don't have the funds to close the AB transaction, is the deal dead?

Many have dead leads or deals they'd be willing to share.