I bought all 5 of my appliances for my new rental at a scratch and dent store for roughly 3k.  

Business owners looking for storage or car fanatic looking to securely store their "toys"How did you find this deal and how did you negotiate it?

I am a corporate chef for a convenience store brand, and besides buying my home, I have never been in the market or industry. 

Again, the BiggerPockets store has some books for this or you can learn by watching podcasts, reading blogs, and interacting on the forum.

We don't have panhandlers in Pueblo West asking for money in grocery store parking lots like the city of Pueblo. 

How close is the nearest grocery store out of curiosity?  

@Lance JohnsonYou could reverse engineer the county assessor site API (through inspecting network traffic), then iterate through all possible parcel numbers, storing the results and their data in a database.

We watch the auctions weekly and snag up items for 5-20$ for kitchen cabinets, vanity’s, faucets, lighting and etc. we store everything in our warehouse. 

That In my opinion is the best thing for $40K of investment. 3) REIT can come in many flavors and I would be very careful about them considering huge commercial big box stores are taking it on the nose right now and many REITs are heavily vested in that type of asset.

I own 3 UPS Stores across two cities, in a full-franchise model.