As the buyer you decide what you want to pay and hope you have a agent that 1- will offer it and 2- will do a good job negotiating it.Bottom line is, assuming your agent is fully engaged and on your team, you make all the decisions.

But it just makes sense to invest and follow the jobs, weather and access to travel.

If you're moving more than 50 miles for a job you can get an exemption.

I don't want to get a job that gets me out of the game, I started playing around with marketing and I'm doing lead gen, data scrape, and cold calling for investors and small businesses.

I would suggest try to find a job/ volunteer where you can learn about real estate

Maybe your goals are different or maybe you have a job where you already make lots of money, but I wouldn't touch that kind of cash flow with a ten foot pole.

And that would lead to my best suggestion for cutting costs: Let someone else (a mail house or an online outfit like Click2Mail) perform the labor tasks for you.

Called 4 tree companies to come look at 3 different jobs.

The wealth of knowledge than can be obtained is incredible and I am happy to have stumbled across BP and more importantly this NJ sub forum.A little bit about myself - I've always had an entrepreneurial spirit growing up (started a small landscaping company in HS to get me through college), however, I fell into the trap of "you need to get a good degree, then a good job, with a good company."  

Not creating a new electric outlet, using the outlet and rewiring to new location through concrete ceiling.What are the implications of not getting electric permit and doing the job anyways down the road?