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Summary is: It's really dumb that you have to take a regular "job" for a couple of months to buy a house.

And I agree.

Not to buy a primary residence: to buy a (5th) investment property with bank financing. This is noted in the first few paragraphs of the article.

Not to do any of that actually, it would be to take equity out of a property that is owned free and clear (just like all the other properties owned by the author):

> I own four properties free and clear. I have no debt.

> Not just any mortgage, but a cash-out refinance of less than six figures on a foreclosure I bought for cash, rehabbed and turned back on the market as a rental.

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