As with many of these things, eat the fish and spit out the bones.

Leave the tapping and texturing to the experts, but you can do the painting easily yourself.Go fishing around Home Depot, they have cost breakdowns for everything, an example is $80.00 (Southern California prices as of last month) to remove and replace a toilet.

When we looked at our current lakefront home my husband just stood at the edge of the pond studying the fish and was ready to make an offer... this after I nixed the lakeview house he wanted to make an offer on with no bedrooms for the kids.... those views can be distracting.

Or is that type of thing only for the 'big fish' ..?

Once the Dingo resort is built you need to pick me up in DTL and we can go Bone fishing :)

You have Florida and then you are swimming with the fishes!

Sit on boat, catch fish, die happy.Action taken; Lots of reading, looked at 10 properties (and counting), ran numbers on 50 properties (and counting), attend every open house we see to talk to realtors, drive/bike/walk for dollars, hired a realtor.  

No fishing :(

It's common knowledge around here not to eat any fish that you catch downstream from the refinery and its pollutants. 

You are sending so many mailers to fish out the rare motivated seller in your list of 10K people.