Your neighbor, an equal investor in the neighborhood to you, was denied the opportunity to live in a quiet single-family neighborhood. 

It depends on the size/length of the job, but usually 3 or 4 equal payments throughout the work.   

Getting started is as always the hardest part - building out the logistics, legal bits (for import duties, etc), marketing (be it a website, direct b2b marketing or Amazon) and sourcing the right suppliers are all equally difficult (yet interesting) tasks.

For example, if an appraiser has two equally valid comps that are $5K apart, why wouldn't you want to do whatever you could to encourage him to select the higher one.Like Vikram, I only have empirical data, but here's my experience -- for the first 5 properties I rehabbed, I never met the appraisers and appraisals were hit or miss.

That means the insurance company cuts you a check equal to your rent for any month the property is uninhabitable (e.g., fire, flood, hurricane).

All other things being equal, you do of course.

Or would it just even out and have negligible effect (i.e. more supply & equally more demand = nominal gains in appreciate or appreciation stasis).

It's the same money, just in a different location.Since all equity that is built with appreciation would be the same for anyone that owned that property, all equity would grow equally.

A point is how much your buying down your rate. 1 point is equal to 1% of your loan amount.

The prices are equal, and the service is free.