sp  is a natural product but more expensive but very cool patterns (sheet or tiles)

Indeed I am aware that there are state regulators and legal liabilities around this issue - a point I have made repeatedly in this thread.I like your point on the notion of a 'recurring business model' creating a much more problematic fact-pattern for an aspiring wholesaler than a one-off transaction.  

Also look at the payment patterns on the credit check.

Sometimes NN can be okay in  warm belt state if only limited to 1 or 2 items and the state has pretty minor weather patterns and fluctuations.Additionally many investors look at some of these states as anti-business friendly so do not want to invest there versus pro-business states.

The new definition includes:“Whether for another or themselves, engages in a pattern of business of buying, selling, offering to buy or sell, marketing or sale, exchanging, or otherwise dealing in contracts, including assignable contracts for the purchase or sale of, or Buys, sells, offers to buy or sell, or otherwise deals in options on real estate or improvements thereon.

And, naturally, the cheapos don't have a pattern of being the easiest to work with (they never do, in anything, full stop, no exceptions), the pattern is that they are more difficult, not less. 

I would hazard to guess that many "consumer wants vs needs" would follow the same pattern.

this is an Atlanta suburb I would stick with wood, tile, and carpet....the average southerner tends to be a bit more traditonal...if you want to go against the norm I would do it with kitchen cabinets or creative tile patterns...

Here is county growth data: https://www.businessinsider.com/fastest-growing-and-shrinking-counties-in-america-2019-4Another look at census data: https://census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/visualizations/2019/comm/percent-pop-change-metro-micro.jpgPeople fleeing NY: https://www.newyorkupstate.com/western-ny/2019/04/census-new-yorkers-still-fleeing-state-population-decline-spreads-to-nyc-area.html43% of CA voters say they can't afford to live there: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/08/43-percent-of-california-residents-say-they-cant-afford-to-live-there.htmlNext up, US population dispurses to Suburbs, rural areas and "middle of country" metros: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2018/03/26/us-population-disperses-to-suburbs-exurbs-rural-areas-and-middle-of-the-country-metros/Here is actual flow map of migration patterns in the US based on census: https://flowsmapper.geo.census.gov/map.htmlCheers! 

I will get five bids and no less than five bids.At least one will be so high that I know they are over charging.At least one will be so low that there has to be something wrong such as shoddy work, no insurance, going to find all kinds of issues once they start the job that will cost more dollars, will take a deposit and never return etc.It is the middle three that usually make some sort of pattern or sense to their quotes.