I actually lived a few doors down from this property when I was in college.

And it depends on how much trim is being removed, doors to cut around etc.

I have never priced out the big box stores for installs on major things, but I know that it just took me 12 days to get a garage door opener installed at my house from a big box store that my handyman could have done in 1 or 2 days after my call.

It's not like they go around knocking on doors.

I'm starting to use garage floor epoxy with the speckles in basements and tennants seem to love it because it is clean and they can put a throw rug down if they want carpet taking responsibility off of me.

I used to deal with a builder and dragged him out there to give me his ideas and costs for doing what I wanted to do which was to buy each of these homes and convert the garage to living area and add on a master bath and bedroom suite to the home and build a new triple garage with work area to each.

Doors open with knowledge.I agree with Bryan, you can't get stuck in the world of academia, but learning is a life long goal in any industry, if you were in plastics, the process and dyes would keep changing and you'd need to stay current.

Figure Wall Street is paying 31k per door.

Probably need 10+ doors of good quality before the residual cash flow will amount to much more than "fun" money.I will say that if you are going to think of going out of state then make sure you establish a very good local team before buying anything and make sure they give you a very good idea of what you will be expecting.

Make sure the squatter is good and riled up before you call the cops, hopefully they'll do or say something stupid when the cops are there.