If you must get valley contractors to complete the work you will be charged a premium for travel time both to the project and to the building supply store's, which the closest available stores are in Casa Grande...

Very safe and close to a big grocery store.

@Dalwin Garcia there are a few good HML calculators out there, if you do a google search you can find them, there are also a couple of apps out there that will serve you well they can be found in the app stores for both platforms 

I do love my strategy; I can’t help feeling like a kid in a candy store when purchasing homes for well under what it costs to build them.

I’d stop by a hardware store with a picture and ask.

I also work a day job in IT (think BigBox stores) and invest in SFH, TownHomes, and am a passive in a number of MF unit syndication in the DFW area.As for meeting up with others, be sure to head over to meetup-dot-com and search for the various meet-ups that get together in the Mpls/St.

A cistern is different from a well in that they are designed to catch rainwater and store. 

You can pick up a small thermometer at a big box store that shows humidity for like $10.    

Use a "store room" lock.

The chain of events caused by the demise of the phone brought Elizabeth to a used book store where she picked up a copy of a book she hadn't read since high school, it was a book I'd never even heard of.. yep, you guessed it.