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 :)

Outdoors (kayaking, fishing, etc.) has plenty of solid options.

It is a good way to get better labor, prices, tenants and problems-disappear before they start if you park a cop car in front of your units LOL.Sometimes fishing on the MLS can make you a few hundred an hour while you're learning too because the investor can pay you an assignment for finder fee while you get to look over their shoulder. 

Quote from @Joe Fish: Does anyone know if this strategy (rent by the room) is typically considered ‘multi-family’ for zoning purposes?

It is a non-motorized lake, so fishing, kayaking, etc. 

When the electrical inspector came, he went on a fishing expedition looking for more violations.As far as slabs go, I had a different house in Madison Heights on a slab.

I have a friend who got his bass boat that way.