Appliances and fixtures were old and tired.Basically, the core bones of the property were good, but there were a lot of things that seemed ripe for easy improvement.The location was great, right next to the town’s primary commercial district, with a grocery store 100 yards away, coffee shop/bakery, Post Office, drugstore, hardware store, hair and nail salons, barber shop, dentist, bank, a half dozen restaurants, and a variety of other shops and services.

Directly across the street you have Panda Express, Popeyes and a pawn shop/jewelry store must I say anymore? 

Elements like window frames, door frames, railings, door handles, post boxes, a flowerpot, and address posts can greatly enhance the overall look.As Kristin mentioned, it looks like a nice flip.

Trusting your insurance provider is like trusting corner store sushi.

But you do have to store it and move it. 

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!

I look forward to learning from you all as I strive to master this element of real estate.  

These elements show the overall economic health of an area, which directly impacts real estate demand.

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.