Very first thing is go over your contract with a fine-toothed comb and make a timeline!  

At the end of the job you should go through the home with a fine tooth comb and provide your builder with a detailed punch list.

Lastly I comb through Craigslist for most major appliances, equipment or material I can use on the properties.

Unless this data is combed through to check for errors and such, it can be quite misleading.

In my spare time I have found myself combing through the forums and hunting down deals in my local neighborhood.

., 3) and balance sheet in order to plan your finances to banking guidelines so that you not only obtain financing but you do so while minimizing the burden of unnecessary taxes, increase cash flow, manage debt expense/rates, and increase equity growth.Most loan officers will struggle with just getting you a loan as they are used to W2/salary/hourly borrowers with very simple scenarios.The hard part about working with self employed/ business owners/ investors as borrowers is that as a LO you'll have to sometimes comb through multiple partnership, corporate, personal returns, amortization schedules, and other tax schedules to determine, analyze, extract, and find additional income to make a scenario work and it not only takes financial analysis skill but also knowledge of the guidelines and most crucially how the LO can sell the "story," whether it be income, occupancy, asset seasoning, or other to the underwriter to ultimately get you an Approval with the least brain damage as possible.Beyond the analysis and loan qualification skill they will help present you with different scenarios to better your investment return, how to obtain your capital again after an acquisition, strategies, timelines, and generally figuring out ways to make your untouchable equity turn to a lump sum of cash (cash out), or how to convert a jump sum of cash into streams of income (vice versa).

I have been combing my insurance for those little savers because it has gotten out of control. 

I still go through the MLS with a fine tooth comb every day and have modified my approach a little bit.

It's free, and very easy to comb through.

Through a combination of walking my dog through my target neighborhoods to identify distressed/vacant homes, and combing through the pre-foreclosure list for homes that meet my investment strategy, I've got a pretty meager list.