I always told new agents comign to work for me you need to save up 1 years of livings expenses... it will take you that long to get your income coming in a consistent way.. or you need to keep your job and do this part time until you grow into it.those that quite thinking instant success in what is a VERY VERY tough business usually went broke and were out of the game in a matter of months.Think about it like your starting any other kind of small business.. you need capital in the bank you need capital to run the business and you need capital to live on while you are priming the pump.You also need exceptional sales skills and should spend money learning how to sell and close.you need to understand this is 24/7 ... if your going to beat your competition to the deals.And remember there are simply WAY more wholesalers and wanna bee wholesalers than there are deals in MOST markets.. 

So They hold no value except that value which you'd like to assign to it, but yes this exists. 

Also consider asking the bank to have their internal people review the appraisal and see if they can make an exception or change that opinion.

I've done all of that except for calling the city inspector. 

Option 2 HELOC which means Home Equity Line of Credit similar to a credit card except it is secured by the equity of the property. 

The only prorated exceptions for 121 are a very limited selection of health related or job transfer related reasons.  

I'm in DFW, and I'm looking throughout the Metroplex (except in Dallas), but there just seems to be nothing anywhere.

He does not have a copy of the current rental agreement, so I can't verify this except maybe to ask the tenant.

I've kind of been copying my half-sister's dad's investment strategy, except he was even more negative cash flow with 10 year loans. 35 years ago he had 0 properties.

You're in the same position I was about 12 months ago, except I only had $30K set aside to get started.