Good food for thought. 

I’m going to recap the highlights that made this deal great and cover how I raised money to purchase the deal with two partners.Highlights: Off market deal, I negotiated directly with the out of state ownerGreat location, walking distance to a small downtown with bars, restaurants, fitness, grocery stores, shops and a new Whole Foods opening in the FallPurchase price $470,000 in rent ready condition, monthly rents projected to be $5,700, monthly cash flow $2,200 and cash on cash return year 1 greater than 21%Major value add opportunity to upgrade units in 1 or 2 years with new appliances, countertops, flooring, etc.One of the hardest things in the real estate game is raising money for your deals.

Food for thought.

(I also don’t like giving or receiving bites of food in a restaurant.

Hmm...I was hoping someone would loan me money for some Chinese food!

okhere is your challenge for the weekendyou will go look at five properties and make a offer on oneso this evening you need to put together a checksheet for evaluation your properties- copy and pasteyou will look in the paper and Zillow, reltor.com or whatever site that can put you in the neighborhood you want to do your flipget up at 6am eat some food and do your meditation or whatever it takes to get your head in the gameby 8am you need to be in the neighborhood to look at the properties you want to flip or holdso by 6pm tomorrow evening you should have a good idea of what property you want or look again on sundayby sunday evening you should have two that will workMonday you need to write your offerthat's how you get it donenow go get it doneyoull do greatenjoy

Currently renting a place for also $1100 a month (this was before I chose to start being smart with money), but will be out in <6 months.I make about $3200 a month, but obviously have other expenses (food, gas, car maintenance, etc).

Working at some fast food place, retail store, super market, etc is just a flat out waste of time.

I liked where someone suggested installing permanently mounted screens over the drains so that food can't go down.

There's a number of other cities in the central TX area that may better align with you're what looking for.Just some food for thought.