This may be your friend's home, but this is business, not friend-ness.

Granite is not graded by quality but by common-ness of the Stone.

@Todd Baldwin your creative-ness and ability to see money in places where most would look the other way is astonishing!  

@Brad ChandlerNot adding any revelation here.. but from looking over my wife's shoulder maybe FB has fostered a "mindless"ness that the bulk of the eyeballs just aren't the sellers or have switched mindsets to not be thinking "important financial decision" needs to be made.LOL.  

It requires gumption and stick-to-it-ness.  

It is categorized as retail, I think it is really more of an office type of commercial.....http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/20140012/851-Van-Ness-Ave-San-Francisco-CA/

He's been incredibly supportive with my "newbie-ness" and gets that it's about the numbers.  

I need to verify if I'm wrong AND if I'm right, so verification and/or telling me my incorrect-ness is more than welcome.

unless we were selling a block of 20 or 50 of them or something.WE see them in land development and I am sure they are used in bigger commercial and maybe some Multi.. but multi has been so hot maybe they don't use them much there right now I don't really know..But in SFR I would absolutely say they are a waste of time.If you want a short cut just create your own one page purchase and sale contract.. in our state we have Stevens Ness forms you can buy at  office depot that are one or two pages.take one of those customize it with your name etc and use those to shot gun deals out.

i will attached the water bill and some photos of crayons, wall paper damage and general dirty-ness to the hard-copies I mail the tenants.