Your parents have been discouraging about all your endeavors in life--so ignore their discouragements and do your best at what you choose to do.Be your own man (you are 36 years old), time to man-up.Then if you make it--your a self-made man, and if you fail, you will have to regroup and try again.If you have not read Awaken the Giant within by Tony Robbins, do that, and do the written exercises in the book.It can help focus you.Good Luck!

My plan was to refinance it as fast as I can, but I was not able to find a lender who was interested in cash out refi for less than 100k ARV.

For those who are not able to do real estate investing inside their plan, the usual pathway is to convert a 401(k) from a previous employer or an IRA into a Self Directed IRA.

And how is it you're not able to repair it?

Websites such as Opendoor promise various perks for buyers and sellers; most notably, they allow real estate transactions to occur without ever being listed on the MLS.

President Wiliam Tessar, and EVP/Chief Legal Council Alan Dettelbach have left Civic Financial Services.https://www.mpamag.com/us/news...

This is to my knowledge the second or third time a giant power outage has happened in TX, so did you learn from the last one? 

For example, if they know the seller would accept $XX, but are asking well above that, they are not able to disclose that bottom price.

There is a difference of 98 SQFT less.Reached out to seller agent and they are telling what ever they listed is as per tax records (they put 2006 SQFT) and not able to reduce the price. 

I been looking to get into a Duplex as a first invest property and an FHA loan would be a perfect way to provide me with the finances to start BUR quickly find my self not able to qualify for the loan since i don't have the 2 years of work in a field now my wife is self employed and has more than 2 years of work history in the same field what i bring to the table is a credit score of 720.