Similar to writing goals down to bring them into reality, writing an offer down and getting it in front of a seller is vastly more effective then an imaginary, non-existent offer you're asking them to consider.

I just sold my house , agreed on a price but told the buyers agent to add their commission to the sales price in a fixed dollar amount .

I was able to take a loan on my 401k to help pay down our house, but I was recently fully disabled so there wasn't any penalties for us.Get a good CPA and get started.Plus you could always wait a bit and not move on any more properties until you get all this under control.

If you are going to house hack, then you could do FHA. 

He just kept coming up with new issues and needing more money that didn't exist. 

After the Great Recession, he could have moved part of his money to real estate to take advantage but he didn't because he understood that it was a temporary and abnormal situation and not a base to change his business model.So, finally, let's see if US real estate is the right basked to invest in, if one such basket exists.

I feel stuck in a similar situation, I have $1M in equity in this house that I’m living in and renting the mother in law apt next to it , the problem of course is the 7-8% interest rates , have they not stopped the BRRRR technique in its tracks ?

Nice to be able to see who is using that house as a residence and such.

These individuals have reason to try to sell you services as opposed to actually telling you about the condition of your existing septic.

I held open houses - people flooded in.