Had to kiss a lot of proverbial frogs to get here, but I think I finally found someone I can trust to handle my personal/business taxes.

I'm looking to purchase a place to move into and rent out my current one and leap frog from there.

Some people do like to put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat and others like to just give an as is deal".

Add that to the insight you've already seen on the post re the challenges of the refi, needing to vet the HOA health, understanding the HOA covenants (particularly related to rentals)....keep kissing more frogs until you find a better princess.

You don't use any kind of wall anchor, that is for hollow walls and light weight;Stud finders are notoriously inaccurate; knock on the wall to find the studs or start from the corner and measure 16" out and 24" out and look for studs at those locations, they should be close.

You will learn a whole lot in terms of managing money and build wealth. " The One Thing" and " Eat That Frog" are also pretty good. 

Unfortunatelly it is like that tale: having to kiss a couple a frogs until she gets the prince.The more you can leverage other people's experience the better.Good luck.

Here are some examples:Example 1- A hollow core door or doors which do not contain fire rated glass must be replaced with a solid wood door flush at 1 3/4" to 1 3/4" which equals the equivalent of a 15 minute fire rating.

Already having to evacuate for one tsunami, and $400 for a hollow interior door on island scared us off. 

Eat that frog.