Does anyone know how much is the minimum that I can realistically pay for permits, plans, materials, and labor?

Now, if in your walkthrough and lease review you find material lease violations that could result in eviction, then that would be another option, but again, that is (I am guessing) unlikely and still risky, since there is a cure period associated with evictions.Not sure if this exists, but maybe get a private lender (ideally family member or friend) to lend you on a purchase loan for 10 months, then refi into a different private or hard money lender once tenant is out?

Most newbies have a good experience with a contractor but they want to beat them up over a change order that is totally out of the contractor's control or that the contractor doesn't want them to provide their own crappy materials.

It covers the building as it is constructed, materials in transit, materials being stored, etc. 

I found a school that allowed me to download their material and I listened to it in my car.

Please don't follow the teachings of all these gurus promoting DMM.It is not the "verbiage" of the marketing material that magically does the trick.It is your ability to show how credible, trustworthy, and competent you are that drives a conversion.The medium itself (mailers) works against you. 

One of my favorite ways is by going to your local plumbing/electrical/building materials supply houses and speaking with the counter person(s). 

I have a property that's a good material for flip…but I would like to find out if the demo court is really tough to work with.

I currently work for a luxury building materials company and my commute is about an hour and a half each way every day.

This is in order to keep up with inflation and increasing taxes, insurance, utilities, cost of materials and labor for repairs, appliances etc. everything has gotten more expensive.