Tempur Sealy, the world's largest mattress supplier, is divesting 176 Mattress Firm and Sleep Outfitters stores to gain approval for its $4 billion acquisition of Mattress Firm.

I will of course use YouTube and other online sources, but I'd also like to speak with a person and even build a relationship with my local hardware store!

But you do have to store it and move it. 

Again, the BiggerPockets store has some books on this topic, or you can learn about it by watching podcasts, reading blogs, and interacting on the forum.

At the time when the chemical industry discovered farmers as a huge market all sorts of herbicides and pesticides (the are banned today) were introduced, stored and disposed of basically into the ground: the farmer did not want to have stuff growing between the barn and the farmhouse anyway, so seemed like a good spot to kick that barrel over.

Also, I want to create an in-house store with Stayfi and The Host Co to sell themed merchandise and local vendor services.

An institutional investor with a history of working with syndications in these kinds of deals is going to have a much better handle on fair and realistic fees the syndicator should be collecting for those services versus a bunch of lps that may be working on the first syndication deal and frankly glosses right over those issues when they see 15% annual returns and a nice fat cash bonus on the planned exit.

Trusting your insurance provider is like trusting corner store sushi.

Again, the BiggerPockets store has some books on this topic, or you can learn about it by watching podcasts, reading blogs, and interacting on the forum.

LL Flooring, formerly known as Lumber Liquidators, is closing all 430 of its retail stores after failing to secure a buyer during its Chapter 11 bankruptcy process.