Food for thought.i need to be more careful going forward as i was more focused on buy and holdWhat are some of the creative ways of coming up with the down payment?

I also like to travel and cook which gets expensive.My Initial StrategyMaster my local market, Cordova TN.

Its only if meth was cooked in the house, not if meth was used in the house.

Plus I do have a nest egg in traditional IRA that will never go into REI that will keep me out of the cat food isle unless RE AND equities go into a very long term depression.

I would like to provide you some food for thought regarding future acquisitions. 

Free food and Alcohol is involed. 

I am now a cook at a supermarket, making $15 hr, and my husband is a tech support at a starter company.

It's old, full of books, papers and old food, but otherwise it seems really solid.When we finish our inspection, the agent says that if we are ready to make an offer we can sign it on the seat of her car. 

Combine all that with an existing infrastructure that had already had in a place a golf course, performing arts theater, and the best Mexican food in town (Ninfa's, El Tiempo, Villa Arcos), and you've got a good recipe for explosive growth.

@Robert Cook Welcome.When I began investing I quickly found there were two types of investments in Residential, then a lot of combinations of them.The first, in my town (higher priced), usually had high appreciation but would almost never cashflow positive unless you put huge money down or paid off the debt service (PI).The second type (lower priced and a higher percentage of rentals), in a nearby city, cashflowed immediately but would not appreciate as fast as the first.So cashflow or appreciation?