To allow that money to go to waste would be a shame and would likely cement in stone that I would not go any further than reading or posting.To summarize this post, challenges can either be your motivation or your demise.

@Aaron Brown Thanks for the great post!

Good morning, first time poster, please forgive if I bypassed any steps before posting. 

I cant tag him since I'm not his colleague yet, but just search his name or hopefully he sees this since he posts quite a bit.

There is a rent estimator at the bottom of these very post.

All the blog posts were posted on the same day, April 26th. 

I can put down up to 100k, maybe even more and I can qualify for traditional financing.I note in your post that you never mention how much you can get for rent in the markets you've explored thus far. 

Hi Jessie and thanks for posting.

@Chris SeveneyWe've done friends and family, posting on FB groups, LinkedIn posts.

Great post.