It also helps your borrower with his or her cash management – the lifeblood of any flip.You would have to amend your note but it would take some pressure off your borrower, reduce your angst, and increase your return.

At that rate, I could have given the contractors naturally filtered, artesian spring water to run through their pressure washer and bottles of Voss to every prospective tenant. 

Add to that mounting state debts that will likely bankrupt states, causing massive debt default.

proper mounting box. 

The switch will come when (if) the risk free rate competes with cap rates themselves already under pressure from rents not appreciating as much as values.

My father is well off and is pressuring me to purchase a house so I’m no longer living in an apartment, and is offering me up to $20k for a down payment.

My suggestion is to widen your search, open your parameters and your mind to a different class of properties or a market under less pressure. 

But those are long-term opportunities for 'buying at the right price', if the remodel can attract the right tenants and working with local law enforcement can continue to put pressure on remaining gang activity.I'm not seeing as much opportunity for significant cash flow in N.

In doing so, I feel it helps to take the pressure off myself to trade and put myself into a risky deal simply because I need the income from flipping. 

They use a vacuum vs pressure because pressure  could cause anything in the tank to get forced out.