If a contractor is charging 10% markup to assure he has the right materials on site at all times and you are not going to be there 3 times a day it probably makes sense to go that route.The building supply shops usually specialize in certain trades, where you are going to be all over the map with little projects of each.  

My wife's family lives in the area so we have a network of people are references for trades folk whenever we need something done quickly.

Pretty much designed to introduce people (with or with some money) to jump in and be a part of a network established by brokers or dealers in their system of trading notes/mortgages.

There is case law that is conflicting on whether or not landlords need to 1099 their vendors as the IRS takes the stance rentals are not an active trade or business, therefore a 1099 is not needed.

It looks like you have plenty of space around the island for the larger size.Kill The angled base corner, change to a blind base with swing out susan- running the blind toward the range, then pop in a double trash pullout between sink and newly established blind base.

I learned that with jobs, I was trading my time for money -- and with elders, I was trading my personal freedoms/philosophy for money. 

its a baseball term referring to a pitch that is so low, the batter thinks its a ball, but it just barely comes within the strike zone. the ump calls it a strike and the batter never swings. funny thing about these lowballs that no one swings at........ they never get a home run from them either. as a pitcher, if you never throw a lowball, you never get that strike on the batter. as abat ter, if you do not swing at the low ball, you are never gonna get a hit either. you need to throw that low ball once in a while and see if that batter swings at it. getting started again is hard, but you already know some of the game from trying a previous time. so, you should have less fear going into it this time around. you have watched all the podcasts, read all the books, now get out there and do what you want to do. no one stays in school their entire life, you have to get out there and apply what you have learned or all that learning is useless. get out there. if you fall on your face, then get back up. the only way to learn to do anything right is first learn how to do it wrong. then you know what not to do. good luck to you 

Provided that your deal is in full swing with the bank.

Speaking with longtime mutual friends, some of whom worked in inspections and various others, working as sub-contractors in the "local" building trade gave me a very different prospective.

Atwan Kwan really it is a handyman type of job, but if you are looking at trades I have always used our plumber.