No weed barrier/fabric or plastic will stop them, so have the rocks "fluffed up" and get some pre-emergent weed killer sprayed twice a year to keep them in line.

professionals (investors and agents) don't know how to put them together in the first place.So, rather than looking for pre-fabricated deals, I suggest you look instead for:sellers who own free-and-clear but have a vacant house in serious need of major repairsellers with mortgages where the monthly payment is less than fair market rent, especially when there is little, no, or slightly negative equityabandoned homes that have not (yet) been foreclosed onYou'll need a combination of MLS, tax records, and deed records to find and research these types of prospects.

I went to a plastic distributor and fabricator and got a TON of the pieces of plastic cut down to a standard size 18x24 and they carried the H-frames on the cheap.

He taught me about cars, construction, welding, fabrication, etc.

If it is in fabric, and the fabric is not dry rotted, I would leave it alone.

Make a template from cardboard and take that with to a countertop fabricator. 

We ultimately purchased 3 standard precut slabs from Floor and Décor for $480 and had a local fabricator cut and install them with an under mount sink for another $975 in mostly labor costs and it turned out great. 

A steel fabrication tenant will need to comply with runoff of cleaning materials and heavy metals, safety issues with welding gases, OSHA requirements applicable to the structure (safety rails, overhead beam loads that are part of the building structure and used for cranes and lifts).

For example, address safety before belongingness.Then you can get the fringe to look like the "fabric" - the better parts of the city.There is a proven plan now.

The fabric of our community and livability are changing.As demand for real estate increases, our property values rise and so do our property taxes, which makes it even more difficult as a buy-hold investor to meet the needs of the people we are trying to serve.