Perhaps selling,and thus burning my bridge and safety net, will give me even more motivation to become successful in real estate.

The daily tasks that pay the bills, throwing that safety net away to go to the unknown.

If the purpose is the former, than you need to be honest about your motiviation, if the latter than any potential investors or lenders are interested in how you are going to make money - unless of course you are getting financing from a government or charitable organization whoose specific goals include social engineering.

Now if we can just get rid of social networking like Facebook then we can get back to a world that "makes sense".

You can try calling the local police department to find out about crime and the safety of the block.

So, the money sits in a free checking account, in my name, with my social security number, and they are all happy with that, but I am not.

Upon formal inspection for Home/Pest found unpermitted electrical/plumbing/foundation/HVAC work that is a section 1 safety/health problem.Bank won't reduce price to meet rehab costs, looking to call county permit office and place permit violation liens on the property to see if bank sees them as more serious issues and reduce the price.

He will have social security and some pension, so he will have an income, one that would support a $1200 payment on a place (and have money left for other expenses, including maintenance on a place as it is new so there should be minimal).I think it would be best to have that payment locked in for the rest of his life so that if rents fluctuate he won't have to worry.

Before you start running any ads, make sure to set up Google Analytics on your website so you can track what's working, set a set daily budget that you can afford and then make sure you use the following Google settings: Exact match on your search terms, target your specific Geographic area ex. the city/cities you're targeting, manual bidding, and break up your search terms in specific groupings like a specific city and write ads specific to those ad groups.By doing PPC right away you'll know what terms get your target customer to take the action you want, plus you'll be able to get traffic to your website right away.There are lots of other things to get traffic to your website, like SEO, Facebook PPC ads and specific social media strategies but PPC is a very good place to start.I hope this helps.

A commercial loan for me is at least 2 years out, just to give me time to get a safety net savings built up to handle the risk and have enough for the down payment.