the bathroom tile is too old", etc.I was the only person crawling under the house, going in the attic, looking in the Main panel.....everyone looked at me like I was nuts.So of course I bid it way higher than anyone else and did not get it.

You can also get into more active strategies like STR and rehabs, but the work required to get in this is significant and at that point you might be able to just get a new role with the same pay with the equivalent effort.Is your entire industry in a hiring freeze or just your company laying off?

It's such a small area I would put down tile.

Hoping to be laying down floors in three weeks!

Similar to what you said I knew I needed cash reserves for our business but didn't want that money laying around in a checking account not earning any interest.For book keeping I recently transitioned from Google Sheets to Stessa. 

I lay out the offer terms I am comfortable with right up front.

In my opinion, 95% of what lawyers do, in terms of Real Estate and Contract Law, can be done by any lay person.

And in some cases, a roof inspection when the HI is not confident or the roof is a specialty roof (metal or tile) 

We don't want to do anything that will crack with settling, like ceramic tile.

Finally, he leased the property (actually about half the property) to a tile distributor.