On the other hand, if everything else about the house checks out fine, I personally wouldn't let the mess slow me. 

I can retire this year from the National Guard (part-time years) so I will get penalized if I withdraw my TSP early (I'm 37).

I'm a Mason interested in acquiring passive income to help level out the slow times in the Business.

All this equates to an economy that basically stays flat to slow growth.

We did a trip to Memphis and I was ready to dive in but decided to slow down a little and start with a local flip with the guys to get our feet wet.

I have slowed down purchasing more properties as I convert the remaining 12 properties to Airbnb.

The only thing that might slow you down is if you show up on a particular internal fraud alert system for some banks.

To note, though - I don't necessarily think the market is going to slow down in the near future with all of the growth that's happening in Austin.  

The MLS/Realtor/bank loan route is definitely slow.  

Then, the return on that investment tells me how fast (or painfully slow) I get my investment back...and actually start to make money.I'm only interested in the cash on cash return, or cash flow, since both of those profit gauges tell me how much actual money I am making...now.This makes more cents (dollars) to me since my business model requires that I get all my cash back before the end of the year...most of the time back within a few months.