On my latest house which I am shopping for now, I did also shop online with Best Buy and Home Depot and Best Buy ended up coming in about $200 less for the package, although they couldn't deliver for a few weeks for some reason and I need these in within the next week or so.

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You should shop some of the larger national real estate brokerage firms as they usually have the best formal training and support staff.

One way to help you is contact local shops for major items to find out how much they are.. $2/ft installed for inexpensive laminate flooring.

A few other sign misspellings I've seen recently include "straighting" (straightening) "lightening" (lightning) "jewlery" (jewelry) and "beutty shop" (beauty shop).

I recently have been shopping for insurance for my duplex and your numbers seem a bit low.

Growing up poor and African American, my mind was limited in regards to the heights I could actually reach.

That's why I really appreciate BP and real estate blogs in general, nowadays :-) You can shop around for a good fit for your strategy, from apartment complexes, inner-city investing, creative financing, and sub30k properties.

Would the new house be as/more/less convenient to work, shopping, medical, and other services?

Investing in real estate gives me the goal to owning an appointment complex and the drive knowing I can become a business professional and the incentives to help others by giving back to the community by providing affordable housing for single mothers wanting to own an all American dream by helping them purchase their first home.