The Safe Withdrawl Rate is in the long term, so the overall many good years would offset the corrections.It's really a numbers game, but in gerneral, younger investors like your "2-weeks notice" senario would much greater impacted than the folkd in their 50's who have invested longer. 

Property 1: short term 3/3 with a bonus game room and bunks in surf city N.C.

The refinance looked like a slam dunk but it wasn't.My lending partner said, sorry the fund managers are still gun shy from 2008, they really, really want the borrower to have some skin in the game in the form of actual cash money that they have put into the deal. 

You two could potentially link up and reduce your skin in the game by working together.

Particularly in the wholesale game word gets around if you are a straight shooter.  

There is also hard money but you will likely need some skin in the game (10-20% down) and this only works for rehab deals.Don't let capital stop you from getting started though.

Listing broker pretty much shut us out, played all sorts of games, and in the end sold the deal to one of his buyers. 

So just research the area and talk to a local RE agent about flood zones when looking cause that could be a game changer for your numbers. 

We’ve had great success listing and managing our own rentals, however I’m aware selling is another ball game.

As even with hardmoney they require some skin the game.