The investor/student continues to learn with me as long as they wish to.

My thought is to have our house paid off in a year or so, then buy a 100k property @ a 20% discount, while putting 20% down ($64k left) then pay that off in a year and continue to do so for 10 years.

Financial independence is a necessary step to winning the game and really only changes the way you can play.

Before you continue with the Realtor make sure that they have Direct contact with the HO and that you will be able to put contracts on them.

I have contacted them about this question and they say something that "These days 500GB disk drive costs only $30 per month, so if some day we will run out of disk space we will simply add new 500GB disk drive with almost zero costs and you can continue uploading without any problems".What do you think about it?

It was the government through monetary policy and other inducements that created demand- but that's not sustainable because people with middle-income jobs could not reach into their pockets and continue to make payments for houses that had sold at multimillionaire prices.

If the deal is that the seller wants to be able to continue to show the house, you could put in that you the optionee have the first right of refusal under certain terms.

You get a markup as long as everyone keeps playing, and the final buyer hopefully ends up able to convert the option and purchase.Of course, the more moving parts in the machine, the more points of failure.

I find the houses, I'm the GC on all the work, I get the properties sold, my partner is just the playing the bank for all funds needed.

Continueing to make my underlying mortgage and the 4 months or so it will take for foreclosure not to mention the cost of lifitng the stay and recording title after is not going to be cheap.