The return of half of the deposit will be made at Landlord's sole descretion, and Landlord reserves the right to consider any and all factors in making a decision to approve or deny the return of any Security Deposit amounts outside of the terms under Return of Deposit contained within the Lease Agreement.

He already has two reservations for this month.

@Sam Harover it's only enough if you have enough left for reserves and expenses after a down payment. 

The goal is to start next summer 2021 with $140,000 cash reserves.

Start looking for access to lines of credit too so you have reserves to catch you if you fall on a flip.Hope this helps!

Just that I reserve some of my systems I've built for anyone that decides to take me on as a mentor and partner deals.

You also won't have any reserves in the event an emergent repair comes up. 

@Justin MabryStep 1: save up enough of your own money to house hackStep 2: house hackyou need money for closing costs and reserves. it's just not possible to borrow every single penny you need to own and manage real estate.

When you are done with the 10 conventional mortgages…even at number 6 it gets onerous to keep enough reserves and to jump through the hoops for regular mortgages.  

Property type, vesting, FICO, market rents (usually properties in California cannot cash flow without large equity/big down/lower ltv there are 80% available for SFR and 75 for units but it needs to cash flow or you need to show 24 months reserves) reserves are all your credit payments plus proposed.