What I recommend for young professionals is to get a large house (4+ bedrooms) that you can rent out extra rooms (house hack) to have others pay the debt down.

Little more overall work and some extra debris to get rid of but it would be done just as fast and with no doubts.

I'll let you answer it through a series of questions:1 - How are you paying for that extra $5k?...

My husbands w2 isn’t as strong as it was a year ago, lots of factors with the business that are thankfully just growing pains, but we’ve decided to start flipping to get extra cash in hand to scale more quickly, and eventually allow my husband to leave his w2 job.

@Randolph Brown it might lower the cashflow because of high mortgage but you will have have extra cash to invest in other property.

Not only was he over on our contracted timeline (which include penalties) but he left me with a TON or extra work, double payments and extra expenses that I was not aware of.I want to recoup my extra expenses, lost rent and penalties and am not sure what steps are next to reporting this guy.Where are the best places to report him, other than his bonds, State Licences Board, BBB, so he doesn't do this again to anyone else...Does anyone have a contract/real estate attorney recommendation?

Not only was he over on our contracted timeline (which include penalties) but he left me with a TON or extra work, double payments and extra expenses that I was not aware of.I want to recoup my extra expenses, lost rent and penalties and am not sure what steps are next to reporting this guy.Where are the best places to report him, other than his bonds, State Licences Board, BBB, so he doesn't do this again to anyone else...Does anyone have a contract/real estate attorney recommendation?

Instead of paying extra principle on a mortgage payment you could send a few extra months of payments as future payments instead.

You get to keep all the potential leads and hopefully, the house will find a buyer.After that, you can go door knocking and have the same conversation - what can you do to help them in real estate...None of the above has cost you extra money beyond the startup costs.After that, you can buy expired listings, FSBO and neighborhood data.

By spending the extra, if you have it, and paying a down payment to eliminate the insurance, you'd likely end up way ahead.