So it may not be available.But if you take little manageable steps until you've got a safety cushion of a few months, and no consumer credit at all, and a paid for primary residence (I admit it I do bear a resemblance to another Dave..) then you can feel absolutely comfortable going all in and leveraging to your hearts content (it's only a passing resemblance to that other Dave).  

@sherif I would love to do house hacking, so many benefits and if it was just me I would jump in, in a heart beat.

start at 16yo building your net worth. get as much money as you can as quickly as you can. get a job ASAP. get a credit card ASAP. buy a house ASAP. buy a house every year, and rent your old house out. when you get 10 houses, you can retire.dont help people until you can help yourself. your responsibility is to the family you create and to yourself. anyone else you help is out of the kindness of your heart. people will use you. its your responsibility to not allow them to use you. stay away from people that reject your help, but seek to use you. giving people money is NOT help. give people help, not money. youll give them all your money and all your money will be gone and they will still be in the same position. dont help people that dont help themselves but understand some people are in genuine situations b/c and they are so down and out that they wont help themselves...and you might need to push or inspire them. depression is just sadness. live your life a certain way to avoid it.whew!

For some reason, I can't get the renters to switch over to electronic payments... and one of the rentals was in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Then when FICO comes in lower or appraisal lower or something different than we believed from the start I can tell borrower why there is a pricing add/difference.This is a question that your lender should show and demonstrate to you easily in their pricing guidelines.Your lender is lacking skill or heart.

Always took time to meditate on them, pray over them, believe in my heart, and have the faith that God will provide for me and let it come to pass. 

I don't want a dentist to diagnose my heart problems and I wouldn't necessarily want a property flipper to tell me how to setup a buy and hold business based on cash flow.Good luck.

Our hearts are in downtown Seattle.  

I'm curious what gets the hearts and minds of BPers racing?

I'm a fix-and-flipper at heart but have a bunch of deals working that I'd like to wholesale out.