If you feel you could stay afloat if things went wrong then I'd move forward. 

I would imagine being understaffed is the new normal if businesses want to stay in Vancouver proper.

I've read articles on HML that give scenarios of receiving a percentage of the draw at closing.

The "draw" is our personalities.

I most certainly won't let fear get to me and at some point very soon I am going to graduate from just  studying and proceed with marketing and drawing up contracts!

These jobs will produce larger cash flows with newer (upscale ) markets with the need of future flippers.True Flipping has always been around and it will stay around.

I'm a little biased as I grew-up in Killeen up until I graduated from High School in 2000 and moved to Austin where I still currently stay.

The tip of the tester stayed yellow, but there was some slight redness from the testing solution on the house. 

Stay in touch with the police, and have a neighbor keep a look out and call 911 if they see or hear anything suspicious.What are we, landlords or social workers? 

If you do not do it this way then you risk running your unit vacant because college students tend to start looking for a place to stay around Feb-May for the following year, actually more like Mar-May, but you want the Ad up in Feb.