For such low duration, it is not worth your time chasing 1-2%.

Birds of a feather..........

But we should all keep in mind that status may be chased in many indirect ways, including having your children achieve it for you.I remember the story of Consuelo Vanderbilt.

I don’t believe all the sponsers have quit paying - I think it is an RS issue (at least I hope so) and it gets resolved (vs them having to chase down sponsers).  

@Chase C. 

With that said, I have researched the path of being a bird dog which allows me to get my “feet wet” in the business without having a big marketing budget or actually locking up the home under contract.

The biggest difference is two  years ago, we might have chased a bit. 

I wrongly assumed that after learning Chase offers no personal loans and PNC only offers up to 35k that most big banks would not offer them.

At the moment i have 6k saved in cash that I have with 1k in a student account at chase and 5k in cash.

As a first time investor, you are likely to chase most realtors away, especially if you ask them a ton of specific questions related to the rules of thumb you find here.