This is such a great platform for sharing ideas and building wealth. also BRANDON AND JOSH this is my first official request to earn the privilege of joining the podcast!

Devote the same earnest attention to investing that $50,000 as you devoted to earning it."

Why give away all of your hard earned blood sweat and tears to someone that wants to burn you?

So if a person with no or bad reputation offers me the best deal in the world, he certainly is not going to earn my business no matter what he is going to offer.On the other hand, we are living at the age of communications and information “flows”.

Tax sale certificates can earn interest between 0% and 18%.

The flip side is they may have $52k+ in an investment account earning a much higher return that the interest rate the bank was charging.  

As someone mentioned, if you had a husband and stay-at-home wife, obviously she wouldn't qualify since she has no verifiable income, but you would probably rent to them as long as the husband earned enough money. 

From the web:"McDonald's Corporation earns revenue as an investor in properties, a franchiser of restaurants, and an operator of restaurants.""

House has updated furnace, ac, and water heater, but is pretty old (1920s) so I budgeted 15% for capex/repairs.I think I would be happy with earning 6k profit  + the experience.Thanks for your input, definitely won't BRRRR unless appraisal comes out crazy high for some reason. 

Debt is so cheap it makes no financial sense to keep equity locked up when you can deploy the cash and earn way more on your money.