Gift card to grocery store or buy a pre packaged meal from the deli or Costco. 

Considering there are 0% real yields on almost anything but REI and business investments and my personal view is that the stock market is at extreme risk of imploding, and the dollar is losing value, it only makes greater sense to store wealth in real estate.However, it seems risky to do it in turnkey.

What are you stealing that's worth anything at the dollar store?! 

A convenience/gas store will always be that, a restaurant will always be that, and I’ve seen pharmacies become dollar stores.  

Specially at places where Amazon has Whole Foods stores where they can fill immediate prescriptions as well.

Paying off mortgages at this time in this interest rate environment is generally a very poor return and not one I would pursue unless I was really old (not yet), finished buying properties (not yet), or simply had no other viable place to store excess capital.

It's not so much that the house is near 100 years old as it has to do with all the idiots who touched it during it's life - especially during the time of the Big Box Home Stores. 

To add on to my post above, this is my boilerplate response to people for learning how to estimate rehab costs:#1 Read 'The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs'JScott's 'The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs' is a great resource for new rehabbers to learn how to Estimate Repair Costs on 25 common rehab repairs.https://www.biggerpockets.com/store/the-complete-g...#2 Explore Lowes and Home Depot to Learn About Material PricingTake a tour through Lowes and Home Depot (or their websites) and look at finishes materials and fixtures that you will consider using in your rehab projects.

The firs set I bought from my local appliance store.

For example, a local HVAC company who needs somewhere to store roof top systems for jobs and then needs them delivered and installed.