Spending $25k on a car that will not appreciate or provide cash flow is a silly option compared to making that same money work for you so that you can achieve financial freedom with no one to ultimately answer to but yourself.Good luck in your endeavors.

It seemed to be the only "super safe" method that I could realistically achieve and that my lawyer agreed with.

I will achieve in what I want to do!

The knobs and lock sets come in plenty of styles and finishes.

Nice neighborhood, close to town, fenced in yard, finished basement, ranch style, attached garage.

.There is new construction but it's more of an apples to oranges in that the new construction is sided colonials and on this particular street the homes are ramblers or older style 2 stories, many of them brick.

Ultimate Rewards points made it happen.Those 9K points were probably earned with no more than $3K in spend due to bonus points achieved by using the rights card with the right spend, putting the effective return at over 10% (RT DFW to STL tickets run $300+).Credit Cards, used wisely, can achieve pretty decent returns on your spend - well beyond the 1% rate advertised, but that's a whole other discussion.

By definition that means expending money with the expectation of achieving profit.

I'd take a quick $10K profit rather than a $20K profit that took me several months and a lot of hard work to achieve.

Two years ago I tried to be "all in" at 70%,,,today in the same area, I'm probable closer to 90%,,,to a large degree the market will influence how good of a deal you can find.As others have said, I'm looking at cash flow,,if it fits the area/size/neighborhood specs I use, and still cash flows what I'm trying to achieve,,I'm not too worried what discount I'm getting.