, avoid heavy leverage (this removes an exit strategy if the market goes down) OR do not plan to sell (long enough to wait out a dip), ensure your rent rates are good enough that if they dip you can still cover your payments / expenses, get great managers or manage well to ensure solid tenants, and have enough money in reserve to operate in a bad scenario.There are a million ways to do everything in real estate.

Perhaps, a good enough plan is better than perfect plan. 

My Spanish isn't good enough to have a real estate conversation with her.

Once fixed, you could buy to rent out or if the ARV is good enough, sell for a profit.

If white was good enough before it should be good enough now. 

Not fabulous, but good enough.

If your corporation's credit scores are not good enough (Paydex score and Experian Intelliscore), banks and other vendors will want to see your FICO. 

I suppose my debt to income ratio will have to be good enough for both the rental and the house being built (even though I'd be renting it out as soon as my construction loan went to permanent)?

If the deal is good enough to wholesale to someone for a flip its good enough for you to do the same.  

You see I had reached my end, I came from a poor upbringing where nothing was ever good enough for my parents, where getting a job was top priority.