Ask the tile guy for a hardwood floor guy.

As a result, the seller had to fix some electrical, mold, and foundation issues.However, one major issue  was overlooked by my home inspector: the seller had remodeled the kitchen and laid hardwood floor on top of the main furnace grid, which was originally located in the kitchen.

I would not recommend you get a house that needs alot of work before you learn abit because some things like flooring bathrooms etc you wont know how to properly evaluate the cost of repair without a tiny bit of experience so if you want to do that i would suggest learning from someone or going and finding out all the different price ranges for the following: kitchens, bathrooms, tiles, hardwood, plumbing, elect, roof, AC, carpet.

Houses renting in my sub division are currently going for $1,400 month, and do not have hardwood floors and stainless steel appliances like mine.Does this sound like a good way to start my investment portfolio, it will not be the 2% rule but more 1.7%.Once I do the above steps what would your next step be to adding another house or multi-family unit?

The government will bungle payouts as it did during the last flood disaster where some well connected flood plain dwellers received up to $3 million ( yes 3 m of tax payer money) to sell their ruined house to the province, and others fought to get enough to gut and redo a basement and the government tried to say they could only compensate for the lowest grade vinyl or laminate rather than the hardwood and granite that was destroyed.

Redo the kitchen, leaving the floor.Remove dividing wall between dining room and main room.Remove carpet, refinish all hardwood floors.Expand half bath into the neighboring closet to make a full bath.

.: new windows, new kitchen, new roof, landscaping, fences, pool work, paint, hardwoods refinished, carpet upstairs, converted sun room to porch, you get the idea.  

I have a friend in the hard wood flooring business that is stellar, Parsons. 

I have a friend that handled the hardwood in three rooms. 

It's small and looks like it came up from the basement ceiling and is now poking through the living room hardwood floor.I immediately emailed the GC a picture to ask what it was.