If you are not tied up with government financing in any way, you can rent only to little green people no taller than four feet, it's your property.

Here are my thoughts from previous experiences:$5k is very close so rather than spending so much energy and time, try going back to the buyer and see if they are willing to meet you in the middle, they bring an extra $2500 cash to the table and you eat the other; OR just eat it all and move on.Your only other real option is to switch lenders and start the process over.

Depends on area.. why they went vacant in PHX and Vegas was that the construction industry came to a dead halt and half the renters worked in the trades and they ended up leaving all together to look for work elsewhere.Also PHX had double whammy if you recall the politics at the time in PHX  were booting Hispanics that did not have green card out of the country...

You need to be able to hunt to eat well in RE!

What I do need is a trainer that can give me great personal eating tips, training tips and hold me accountable to my workouts both with him and without him each week.

Well Marie is right you don't need a major city but you may need to add some activity to your wholesaling to make the kind of income you seem to want, and if your hours in your business do not allow you to do everything, you will need to expand your hours, so it is a eat your cake and have it too situation, you can't do it unless your B2B is flexible.My younger brother moved to a small town of 25K years ago and when his job finally went away he called his older brothers who had been investing for years.

I don't like the 2% rule, 50% rule, green shirt on Wednesday rule or any other "don't worry you don't have to think just do this one thing for all" rule.

Examples are foundation work or restructuring the property, adding a bathroom, increasing the size of kitchen, building an addition,… These are considered high risk flips as costs for repair my substantially eat into profit or make it a loss unless you have done it before and know exactly what type of work you are getting into.For my first work, I am more interested in doing a rehab with most common improvements such as paint, carpet, broken windows, leaky roof, counter tops, garage doors ,…. that will prove me with a good learning experience as well as a reasonable profit as a bonus :-)

I think the best way to look at investing is to hedge your risk as much as possible and prepare so you aren't eating Ramen in order to pay a loan payment.How's the rental market off your campus?

And just like when you walk into that Chinese restaurant looking for a hamburger, your options are to find someplace else to eat or to just suck it up and find the best thing you can on the menu.