Be brutally honest with yourself and switch roles for a moment, if you were a professional investor who had 80k sitting around, would you really give your hard earned money to a 23yr old with no proven track record of being successful so that he could go do a deal? 

@Christian Cambridge - I have to be honest, I am not understanding why your rental property debt would not be counted against you. 

Yes, but to be honest I don't know if the realtor is still around and the bank was a community bank.

I am not sure yet honestly, multifamily properties seem interesting.

Maybe you can sue them.To be honest, as someone that owns property with an "unsightly" (whatever that means) structure on it, I'd just throw your request in the trash.

» , to be honest, we would have bid again, but I felt like he would have revealed that if we told him that….so we bluffed him too, which is not great.

@Bill Plymouth Honestly, for such a small deal, and @ 8%, that's $4,400. 

If you ask for contractor recommendations, usually you will get some very “honest” responses 😂 from folks that live in the town, and you can at least have a jumping off point and/or know which people NOT to call!

I have no idea what your financial situation is, but you absolutely can invest- honestly, anyone can do it, in any market and with any resources (or lack thereof).

I would like to get involved in the real estate game but honestly I don't come from a rich family and I really don't have much money to my own name but that should not stop me from what it is that I want to do.