I understand the need to use licensed/insured tradesmen for electrical, HVAC, plumbing,roofing and I will easily be able to obtain W-9, copy of insurance.However, my plan for flooring/sheetrock/painting/siding is to use sub contractors that may not be able to produce a legitimate W-9, may not have insurance, etc.Is this a bad decision?

Outside of that we tend to use BK flags as further insight and do a little custom configuring to produce our bids based on simple ideas of if BK is filed and if Proof of Claim is filed, then payment streams and discharge and dismissal.  

That house, that neighborhood has no resale value other than as cash producing investment property.

What I would do wouldn't produce the the greatest quickest increase in cash. 

Right around Thanksgiving we bought a deal from a local wholesaler in a key area where we buy property in many cases sight unseen! Before we finished rehabbing that deal I sent out 200 postcards to the addresses withi...

I'm not sure that it will have a direct effect on the value of your property since commercial property is all about how much income the individual property is producing.  

I've heard so many times to work with a top producing agent.

Spouses tend to shut up when you actually produce a check from your efforts.  

I would find successful business that are producing in todays market.

It is a great property in a good area and I feel it can produce for me for years to come.