If you are good with people, focus on getting into a restaurant, possibly work for a local pizza delivery and stow away AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE (Go read Set for Life).

They decided to buy a top of the line one, took care of the order, delivery and installed it themselves.

In addition to the house being a disaster, there was a separate garage that was caving in, piles of trash in the yard, two old bread delivery trucks, a rusted out Ford Bronco, rotting building materials, and miscellaneous fishing gear strewn about the yard.

I was hoping to find a group or someone willing to teach me about this market as I work a full time job as a delivery driver around town, as I see a lot of vacant homes in the areas I deliver to and would love to start walking away from the corporate money to making my own for my family to spend more time with my son(8yo) and reduce or eliminate the amount my wife works..

If your IRA is receiving a discount because of your relationship with a vendor, then you are providing a benefit to the IRA.You should definitely not become the delivery boy for your IRA. 

In terms of functionality, we want video, audio and fob entry and possibly a key pad as well for delivery men, etc.  

Two of the safe harbors that can help you deduct improvements are below:1) 2500 de minimis safe harbor.the safe harbor applies to amounts paid during the tax year to acquire or produce what the regs call a “unit of property” (UOP), you must meet these requirements: (1)you need to have written accounting procedures treating as an expense for non-tax purposes amounts paid for property costing less than a specified dollar amount (which will be 2500 for you), or with an economic useful life of 12 months or less;.(2) the taxpayer treats the amount paid for the property as an expense on its books and records in accordance with its accounting procedures. ( do this on your bookkeeping software or whatever you utilize)(3) the amount paid for the UOP doesn't exceed $2,500. as substantiated by the invoiceNote: The cost for the Unit of Property includes l additional costs (for example, delivery fees, installation services, or similar costs) if these additional costs are included on the same invoice with the property.2) Small taxpayer safe harbor: To be eligible for the safe harbor, the total amount of improvements for the property for the tax year may not exceed the lesser of $10,000 or2% of the property's unadjusted basis.If the total amount paid exceeds the safe harbor threshold, the safe harbor does not apply to any amounts spent during the tax year.

If you have a unique house in the more rural area of a large zip code, the lender's perception of the value will be tainted by what is happening in the more populous small town that is the center of that zip delivery area, and usually that is that values are going down.

If I knew when some unstable mail delivery guy was going to go postal at McDonalds, I would pack my lunch that day.

I am just curious as to delivery.