Your best bet is to see if the person giving you the gift funds would be ok being added to the loan.

I bet my Realtor was happy that he didn't have to take any time out of his day to show a property and STILL got a commission! 

Next house moving forward,  I bet I will be twice careful with tubs/ showers, water system and the likes.  

Harder means less people will go for it.It's too small for most of the big players.

I suspect in RE investing and wholesaling ( well I know) 10 to 15% of those that try make 90% of the deals.Ever talk to a wholesaler that's an absolute idiot,, does not know what they are doing could care less about you or the seller  ( for sure it happens every day)Agents are no different.. this is a great industry and for those that can rise above and be professional in their work  do not get emotional about the deals they can and do do very well.For all those Investors out there that are small time players IE your buying a hand full or less of sub 100k homes and are ragging on agents well your just as clueless as those you call idiots.. your not really worth a lot to an agent and an agent only has time to sell so when I hear those say they fired 5 brokers and 4 fired them I say they need to look in the mirror  easy to rag on the agent what about the crappy buyer  LOL...

If you feel lucky, go to Vegas and bet on red on roulette.  

It must feel great I bet.

Flipping and other shorter term strategies are a safer bet when prices are high.

Account Closed   I would give Minh a PM he is an expert in San Jose multi and I bet he can help you

Im placing my bets that when all the tax incentives go away for companies to locate their offices downtown there is going to be a glut of cheap vacant offices (and apartments) that will get filled by the only people that want to stay in the area.... and that gets back to politics!