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

To start I made sure that I found a majority of my furniture from locally sourced companies such as thrift stores, Facebook marketplace, mom-and-pop shops, and so on because I felt if I'm going to do this right I want to support the local community I am investing into. 

When people are hungry, we don't pass a law that grocery stores have to give away free food.

I just subscribed to Pro, but I seem to have 2 different accounts: one for this part of the site and another for the store.

I just bought all the drywall, cement board, and a 3/4 full thing of red guard water proofing that I need for my entire bathroom remodel for no joke $110, that would have cost me $400+ at the store but someone else who already finished their bathroom just had a ton left over.

Also, I have heard success stories of folks finding good contractors at the home improvement stores early in the AM.

Not only do they have about 3 mill of AHP Capital, they have about 10 mill in collateral of AHP assets (mortgage note collateral files) stored at a bank which obviously they won't hand over. https://oakharborcapital.com/I would be curious to hear oak harbors position...

I'm a civil engineer, and for example, I do the civil engineering/permitting for many Gas-Station & Convenience Store.

I'm not crazy about the big box stores as they seem to charge too much. 

Need a place to store it and this place looks awesome!!