At least that's what I would go with depending on what you are trying to do once you acquire it (live in, rent out, re-sell, temp rentals etc.)Just to give you an idea, a 200k loan with 4.5 owner occupied interest rate plus taxes/insurance an easy $1300/month plus since its a condo you pay an HOA fee which in LBC it can range anywhere from $150 - $450.

Working with real estate investors, price is always going to be an issue...It needs to be a balance of pricing and quality of work...Do your research of distributors in your area and find a good quality no brand name furnace and then offer to pass along savings to your customer base...We were using Goodman, now swithed over to Air Temp 92% effeciency furnace with an Airtemp AC coil, condenser, this has saved us approx. $1,000 on an entire new forced air system.

We find that the most effective 'protection' is to put them through a temp agency you use. 

Painted it white and sprayed the Fireplace doors with spray paint designed for high temps.

we had a control on our boiler in basement that only we could access,, we disconnected the theromstat in the unit and set the boiler at the temp we wanted,, kept it at about 70.. we had a new thermostat put in the boiler room. 

I used to go winter camping in the mountains, in temps way below freezing.

that was a temp solution that he put in place for the weekend before he could come back for a perm solution...

Yes,  you could glue Part D, near the trap weir as a temp solution.

A must is Daylight (color temp of 5000k or 6000k) light bulbs.  

Rhett Tullis Ben Leybovich Michael Tempel I Iook at hundreds of deals a year in this size range and management is almost always between 3-5 percent.