The income allows you to save up money for down payments, and it keeps you from appearing desperate during your negotiations (needing to make a deal to eat next month).

Think I'd focus on 2 things:1) Getting my nest egg together or some investor contacts2) Learn about construction (if you don't know) by working for a GC.  

Try to find ones with vineyard experience, but don’t put all your eggs in one basket and work several avenues at once.

Ideally he wants to keep the property to maintain his retirement nest egg since he understands the actual value fixed up and appreciation potential moving forward.

When you are only cash flowing $200 to $300 a month It doesnt take long for some unexpected repairs to eat that up real quick . 

At the Creamery, guests can milk goats, hike in the foothills alongside them as they forage, and eat food prepared by Putnam from ingredients sourced almost entirely on the ranch — colorful eggs, braised goat meat tacos, cajeta (goat's milk caramel), goat milk smoothies, and jalapeno dip for tortilla chips.

@Fan Bi - We basically felt with the pandemic (and not being able to safely go out, eat out, etc) that this was the right time to move from renting to building equity.

The title is Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine.

Ultimately it’s the banks that will eat it, there’s no way the government is going to pay for rent when they can just tell banks to add the delta to the back of the loan.

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