I’ve posted about this many times - I prefer the too-big house method where I buy in a high-job-density area a 4-6 bedroom house with 2-3 bathrooms and I rent out spare rooms to professionals (1 person per room).

I have a full-time job and the pay is not that bad. 

@Nancy E. and others,With regard to keeping the old sink: I am going to be extremely close to my max budget on this, so I am looking to cut costs wherever I can.

In addition to all of that, I immediately got a meetup going in Bend, which was handed off to @Grayson Graham  and he's been doing an incredible job building on it. 

The rates seem to keep on rising, and for those of us that finance our properties, is that going to price us out of the market, or just cut into our profits? 

An old job had me in the city regularly working with the population directly.

This however changed recently when my friend (landlord) recently got a new job and is having to relocate.

Thus, folks will inevitably lose jobs.  

Some people recover, but cutting your body to "improve" your looks?

In the past 5 years at my job, I have taken a liking to working with homes and learning about how they are constructed.