Of course, we've still got the jerks that put their butts out in our freshly painted hallways ;)

The groceries are bought, the grocery store profits, and in turn invests the money, with similar results to the hypothetical real estate investor above investing his money.

First, I'd need to actually spend time ordering the materials and second, I'd have to eat the cost of any left-over material (or eat the cost of storing it until my next job).My contracts always state that all building materials are to be supplied by the contractor and all finishing materials are to be supplied by me.

A breath of fresh air!

Armed with this information, if you walk into a store and want to know a reasonable price for the 2' table there, you can ask what the price of a 4' table is, and then use the adjustment information you have.This is what appraisers do.

Also the big box stores sometimes have closeouts, etc.

I also don't know where the alternative is to store value.

Fresh paint.

Another neighbor there expressed amazement that there actually might be landlords such as myself who care about the buildings, tenants, and community; and a third neighbor there told me the whole neighborhood / area improved "110%" after I bought the property and started making improvements (many of them simple- such as working with tenants to pick up their belongings from the yards to store in the basement).Now I want to earn much more money, and relatively quickly, if possible.

(Buy a piece of furniture on store credit and make steady payments for 4 or 5 months and then pay it all off, get a credit-building loan, get a secured credit card or a Chase freedom card [you build points every time you use it, I have a whole plan devised on that], etc.)SAVE, SAVE, SAVE Put in hours of diligent research.