Here's a series of steps, following the money (cash), to show why:1 - Profit comes only AFTER you recover all the cash you put into a property.2 - If you get $10k in CF/year, but have to spend $100k to get it, it will take you 10 years to break even...all things being perfect during those 1- years (unlikely).3 - If you get $5k/year, but only have to spend $20k to get it, it will only take you 4 years to break even...and, both properties are appreciating exactly the same.4 - If you want that same $10k/year, you only need to buy 2 properties, at $20k/ea, which still would only take 4 years to break even on both properties....and you have two properties appreciating, getting you twice as much appreciation... and you still have $60k in cash unused.5 - Now, spend all $100k on $20k properties, and you now have 5 properties getting $5k/ea per year (and all 5 break even in 4 years),...for $25k/year in CF...and, 5 properties appreciating instead of just one.

This would be a perfect opportunity to utilize a non-emergency line to request officer assistance.

I'm vacationing now in the sunny Mediterranean Sea (it's 80 degrees and perfect beaches btw) but returning 11/15.

If you've got the money to cover the vacancy without  causing too much strain on your finances, then it would be perfectly safe to go ahead.

Until that perfect lender contacts me ready to give me a portfolio loan, I will just be trying to buy with cash. 

For me right now wholesaling is a perfect fit in that I can maintain a FT job.

This is the perfect place to bounce ideas off of everyone when it comes to REI :).

So I figure this would be the perfect time to start.

or simply the property is zoned AG or what have you instead of R 1 and its perfectly legal to have a home on the property in that zone. 

@Hadar OrkibiMy brother from another mother (LOL) would be the perfect guy to answer this Great forum question..