But eventually you take the leap… you decide to go for it and you tread water until you can swim to the next level of your future.For me, I was about 20 attending a photography seminar as a store employee and the day I heard that phrase it hit me… I’m going nowhere being the employee.  

For negotiating:I'm assuming go to local stores (not box box or chain) to get quotes, but what are you successfully haggling?  

We also asked a lot of friends that were moving if we could use some of their furniture.

I thought builders/contractors etc used other stores outside of the "mainstream." 

The best deal I made (for me) was an 75% Interest in a small property rented to a convenience store.  

I feel like I would be willing to entertain this if they weren't needing to move in ASAP, and they brought their own furniture.

They didn't have to drive to the store?

Again, the BiggerPockets store has some books on this topic, or you can learn about it by watching podcasts, reading blogs, and interacting on the forum.

I am concerned about where all this data is stored

I know of an investor who bought one of these, use it for a few days, and then returned it to the bigbox store once the HVAC was fixed.