By now, it should be finished.I'd plan on a couple hours Uwe, no breaks, phone calls, kids, dogs, mishaps or the police telling you to hold down the noise.

A decent tile guy should be carrying an 8' level when he's bidding the job & if he's using enough mortar, grinding & leveling is almost never necessary.

I also tend to think most investors are over confident in their evaluations and just make more noise than the other two.

Thanks Cliff for these links , forgot to mention this is on a owned 4plex with $60k per year income so adding some improvements like Smart home energy monitoring and sustainable energy devices that will allow me to increase rents by 10% since we can show Tenants a 30% savings to them on utilities. last year did double pane windows that lowered tenants bills and reduced most outside noise. 

But then, if you claim to be in the business, that is sufficient, since you may not make anything but noise and losses, like a Realtor starting out!

Make sure the noise from the 2 nearby airfields isn't going to bother you.

Thank you to everyone for all the great knowledge.As for me, I am a 35 year old married father of two little boys and currently work the daily grind as a PM for a large NYC Mechanical Contractor.My wife and I purchased our first home, a small cape, in 2005 from the original owner.

Investors like me (20+ flips) are still getting by and grinding it out.

In some areas, I need a permit for fencing :)Stump grinding and clean-up are good things to do ...

After spending ~30 hours stuffing mailers, data collection, and on the phone, even if I were to net $10,000 on a wholesale deal, if I put $5000 into a marketing campaign, it just doesn't seem like a good use of time. 50 hours of grinding for $5000 taxable profit, even $10,000 taxable profit.