I know this question is probably hard to answer, so if you can give some examples of where previous projects have gone considerably over budget and what caused the problem that may give me a better answer.As always, thanks for the advice everyone, very valuable to a newbie!

I ran a couple grand over budget on my foundation and putting in the 8 footers would put me back on budget, but with what affect on the selling price!?!

I budget about $165 per month.

The HML will do an appraisal, look at your rehab budget and if the numbers make sense the deal is OK.

Preferably something that I can use in any state(I've recently read Larry Goins book about remote investing) Obviously hiring a lawyer at $200/hr isn't in my budget!

She has great people skills and will be great at making sure all of the projects stay on time and on budget. 

I go into the house to find amazing $5/sq foot flooring throughout the property when I planned to do the $.70/sq foot flooring due to it being a cheaper house ($40k), so I called him and said "hey this really isn't in my budget I can't afford this stuff it is going to blow the budget".He started laughing out loud and said it was meant to be a surprise his buddy that works at a hardware store had someone bail on a special order of this oak bamboo flooring that is $5/Sq foot and he got it for $.99/ Sq foot and he was under budget on the rest of the house so he hooked it up.Just goes to show having a great contractor can make a world of difference.

Ranking for highly competitive terms, something that a site like https://serpiq.com/ can tell you, is difficult as there are other sites doing the exact same thing as you.SEO has also been complicated by the fact that large brands, with huge budgets, are now major players in the space.

Go over your budget multiple times. 

Mathematically it is the following:Income Producing Assets = Annual Expense Budget / ROI on those assetsFor example, if a $75,000 annual expense budget is an amount that will allow you to afford to live the way you want (without being greedy) and your risk tolerance allows you to generate a an annual Return On Investment of 10% without working, the your required Income Producing Assets = $75,000 / 10% = $750,000.Once you know what your Financial Independence Number is, next you develop an Asset Accumulation Plan (AAP) to get to that number.