Even if there is no financial reward and we never get to purchase any house from this, it certainly feels good to be able to assist someone that is in a tough spot.

I actually use the example of a $100k property in this article, comparing the returns of paying cash for one $100k property versus leveraging ~4 of them.https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2015/04/1...So if you are comfortable with leveraging, and then you find the magic cash flow spot near you, boom!

There’s no way to tell how much it will cost to level the floor, if it’s couple spots, could be a throw in, if it is 1/2” and 200 spots then it’s an issue.

Also, spot on with messenger marketing.

Here in the Midwest, white woodwork is pretty traditional; I also am a fan because it's easy to touch up high-traffic spots between tenants. 

It's a pretty popular spot for younger people now.

Obviously you can spot a great price or a very bad price on a job, and anything that doesn't scream out great or horrible, is at least 'within reason'.. so really just any idea on where you think if any I should look to get more quotes.   

Be honest and rate yourself from 1-10... if you're a 10 in marketing but a 4 in sales, instead of losing deals and higher spreads to "learn the ropes", you can max out on what you're good at, bring that value to the table and find a 10 in sales.This goes with everything among the business...We realized we sucked at initial calls so instead of getting better, we focused on hiring the best at initial calls, and this was one of our best hires. we went from 10 deals/month to 20 deals/ month almost by the next month after the hire.We did this again on the title side, and it freed up our work load to almost half it's size.Moral of the story provide value with what you are good at, value exchange and partner with someone, or hire people to fill the spots you aren't optimal in.Doing so allowed me to create a virtual wholesale system in other cities (right now we are looking for the best wholesalers in San Antonio to expand to also) by providing my value: prescreened high quality leads, to good wholesalers... we split 50/50 they get leads ready to sign, I take on the marketing and screening, they create the bigger spread than I could, I cover marketing costs, they get 50% equity split on leads that were free to them... that's a win-win-win... allowing us to expand to as many deals/month the experienced wholesaler can handle.

My town is that one where people require a whole house mold abatement if they see a spot in the shower stall... 

I'm not sure if there is any laundry hookups in the units, but there is no laundry mat onsite, so for the sake of conversation lets assume stack-able washer/dryer in each unit and 2 parking spots per unit.