I was looking for a house in a upper middle class neighborhood with great schools .

Typically a persons financial strategy should include: safe money/ assets, inflation protection middle range lower risk investments, typically around 8% and growth higher risk to build wealth, and if you have time to work the business you should be earning income/ profit from the deals you are doing.

My preferred contractor goes by his middle name so can't be found by searching the name he goes by. 

Now I'm in the middle of this new funding training program and they're teaching subject to.

@Aaron Arnold in the middle of building out my portfolio and the benchmark I've always gone back to is either >5% cap rate or >$100 in profit/month/door.

Middle class areas.

Account Closed you should look for SEVERAL good contractors before buying a house if you plan to do a major rehab (you may need to fire one in the middle of your project, then what?).

It is good to know that there is a "middle ground" between the often expensive route of converting to natural gas and the less buyer friendly route of keeping the Oil system. 

In my case, 10 of 12 agencies responded, and the highest, middle, and lowest prices were all with the same underwriter! 

You can choose to maximize the return by leveraging the business with debt or you can purchase for cash and reduce the risk and the return investment (or any level of leverage in the middle).