No mailed check or pick ups.Purchase price 300k and owner is giving 20k towards upgrades/repairs etc  Plan is to install surveillance cameras, lights, paint doors and shutters, 2 water heaters and new signage and minor fixes etc.

We pick the professional, contractor pays for him/her.  

If not, I would demand a substantial discount because you have to assume the units that weren't viewed are in worse shape (I've done this before on a package of houses, one of the things I did was ask to select which houses we viewed, thereby making it random and more likely to be a representative sample than if the seller had picked).

Pick their brains a bit and find out how they came to purchase this property. 

I always joked that I picked up the trades via osmosis. 

People will always have that image in their head and nit pick something in their visualization.

Hello my fellow REI's my name is Eddy and I truly look forward to picking all of your brains on this journey!  

I came to Abu Dhabi for a bit of adventure and for an excellent career opportunity, but my real passion is in real estate and i'm ready to get serious about picking up some investments.  

Now, I have all the time in the world time to take my daughter to school, pick her up, hang out with her at the park, or a snack shop, and volunteer for her school.

You picked areas that are on the edge of getting gentrified, and some already gentrified, but I don't think Olney fits that criteria.