If I were to blow it on a sports car then that would be a terrible waste.

Your wasting your time with this and most importantly your wasting the agents time. 

That's kind of why I wanted to hear from investors who are in the self-storage space, to confirm that self-storage is worth pursuing with my time and money before I find myself 6 months into learning about self-storage only to find out that REIT's and regional operators have already squeezed out all the value-add opportunities and I just wasted time trying to find good deals. 

A wise attorney gave me some free advice - don't waste your time and money going after people that have little to lose. 

The more material you buy the better your discount gets.When your contractor gets a discount, they don't pass the savings on to you, they mark it up, and rightly so because they had to take the time to go pick it out and load it up, and we expect to get paid for our time.So ya, if you have the time and a truck (and sometimes trailer) to do it yourself, do it, or get it delivered for like $75.

Also while on the subject of Norfolk / Hampton Roads, anyone have any recommendations on waste disposal (curbside pickup) current contract seems a bit steep.

Well, if the tenant is the only issue, just sign an assign/assumption agreement on the lease and honor it from close until the lease ends.As far as making seller financing attractive, if I was a seller I'd like to see:1) Sizable down (which is why it may not be an advantage to a buyer)2) Higher rate than market (another reason it may not appeal) since you're not closing at close3) Some kind of default provision if you lay waste to the property or (if it's effective) you don't pay an existing mort or prop taxes and the prop goes into default with some penalties.

Depending on how big the difference is between the profits of the wholetail and wholesale, you might not wanna waste the headache/money (that you might not have) trying to close on this with an HML and just assign it off to make your quick buck.

You probably just saved me a ton of wasted time and frustration!

Don't waste your time with the BBB.