(lots of templates for flyers, business cards, brochures, mailers, etc.)

There is just no meat to most real estate investment books out there....You have just pointed out the reason WHY I suggest to everybody to get a library card and read books for free.

Or having credit card or debit card for investment?

@Samantha Gibson,You gotta work with the cards you're given.   

This stacks the investing cards in my favor since I'm investing out of state. 

If you buy at Home Depot and set up a credit card they email electronic receipts.

Hand scraping and spraying water does not sound fun.

Let me try and answer these questions first as it should not be as intensive in regards to the length of my answers...I directed traffic with ads... from the city newspaper (which also would add to the internet), to the thrifty nickel newspaper, to craigslist, through military paper, through word of mouth, through my business cards, etc...

If he has any personal debts (autos, credit cards, etc.), then he will of course just pay them off with the cash out proceeds, so those don't matter.

It also might be in the cards to revisit a loan modification.