So after a meeting with a long time client of mine to finalize details on a project.We sat around just chewing the fat for a while and my friend had asked what I had been up to in my RE business, he had known I was in the game so to speak and I guess he was looking for a status report,So I began to explain what I had been doing and mentioned a few deals I was looking at.

Its a great strategy you just need to know your ARV when your done with the rehab so there is enough fat in the deal to pull your money out or at least only have a small portion in that you can recoup (ROI or CoC) in the first year. 

That fat ugly girl sitting at the end of the bar starts looking pretty good, after you've had enough drinks.  

We have to be careful (and i’m guilty of this a lot) not to make a deal sound good in our heads by “trimming the fat” so to speak.

@Mitch Messer  wow, I totally screwed that one up with a "fat finger".

I don't just bring you a buyer, I bring you a qualified investor with a fat checkbook that won't waste our time.

The answer about whether or not you would be eligible is a big fat "it depends". 

@Chris Sukala and of course I fat fingered the submit before proof reading.

I learned a lot on how to get everything in writing with contractors using the fat pay method.

So I will have to say with a heavy heart that I did not fully continue and complete a lot of the podcast that I was listening to and I got up to 30 and they were talking about how uncool it is to speak of a deal from the start and that a deal is on the table and I'm looking for a partner and so on......so yeah I feel now  slightly dumb and know better than to ask something like that and of course I welcome anyone and everyone to talk to me and get to know me some more such as asking about my past for being in the military or my kids or my very fat and Annoying Cat.