I have built my "savings" muscle (I'm a natural spender so this is a learned skill) in the process and have been saving every penny not going toward expenses. 

They potentially are trying to hide something by muscling their way in.  

You bought in a bad area frankly, your going to have to muscle your way out and buy up the neighborhood and improve the region, or comes to terms with it.

These are all relatively simple projects that don't involve much capitol; just a good planning session and lot of sweaty, dirty, muscle-building work. 

Practice regularly so your muscles are strong and fast.

I will have a chance to exercise my creative deal-making muscles early that will hopefully serve me well in the future.  

Because of the way I am at work (I pushed myself perhaps too hard), I'm going to talk to my doctor Monday and see if I can get some extra time off from work to let my leg (and the muscles) heal more from surgery.

@Kevin Nolan  you should look at the Florence/Muscle Shoals MSA, I think you would be pleasantly surprised

I'd take another 200K and just dedicate to my own fix and flips here in Indy.I'm a car guy and I'd take 100K and dedicate it to flipping old muscle cars which I have a history of.I'd take another 100K and put it some deals as a LP.Then us the reserves as needed

It is like walking down the street and a 6 foot 5 inch muscle bound biker bumps into you and it is clearly his fault and it is followed by you apologizing to him, Right or wrong.... a fight would not end well.