Now she takes a cut of the rent, but I still get to sleep with her.

A few things here, @Umar Farooq:$725k with only $6440 rent is not going to cut it.

I’ll be taking a significant pay cut, but the hope is that I learn the necessary skills to open my own brewery.

That would mean 1500 sq ft house, $30k for a kitchen and bathroom full gut then just new paint, floors, doors, trim, fixtures, etc.If you have to tear off and re-sheetrock a whole house, $30k probably won't cut it.Anything major like A/C, Roof, electrical, plumbing etc will add on top of that $20 per sq ft

Even if you can find a lender willing to cut down on the seasoning requirements it will cost you money.

While you're sharpening your mental ax by continuing to read books and listen to podcasts, get a side hustle or cut your expenses and bank cash as fast as you can.

Make sure this a solid relationship, otherwise they will cut you out once your successful. 3Market/Demand:4Market sizeSee post, if your the “first”, then you don’t care.

I recently decided to cut the excuses, pay the yearly BP fee and get some skin in the game to force me to work harder so I can make that money back through scaling my real estate investing.  

I'm guessing there are non permitted additions and county made them tear out rinky dink short cuts.

"Give me six hours to cut down a tree and I'll spend the first four sharpening the axe."