(But always remember the only legal advice you should trust comes from a competent and insured attorney in your local area, not from a stranger on the internet)

Besides the obvious office rent, phone, internet, website costs, lic fees, your e and o will run about 1000-1300 per year.  

If everyone else has a disposer and dishwasher then that would be the expectation and you are at a disadvantage.I bet the husband had to get rid of his wife's healthy cooking and if he throws them in the trash she might see it so he used the disposer.

Art Allen I bet I've seen your work if you're flipping in downtown!  

Google they provide 90% of internet search results that take place.What would be a good monthly budget?

Also remember you'll need someone on the ground(good birddog / locator for one) in those out of state areas that you're trying to close in; so team work is your best bet. 

Isn't there some system on the internet that picks up words and phrases, key words, that identifies posts where guru support staff types or franchisees can go to post remarks, under the radar, perhaps reverse phycology gaining a bit of credibility while advancing other aspects?

One of their points is that they will guide you on how to create credibility with HedgeFunds they currently do business with in order to get better quality notes that one can find via internet sites or servicers like fciexchange.com (does that smell like an upsell for the future?)

The best bet is always a tri-merge report with all three.  

It means I am betting he won't pony up the monies to correct the issues and likely won't agree to pony up to make me whole to walk away, thus, I will likely have to go to court to recoup my funds (EMD and costs I have unnecessarily incurred due to his failure to disclose pertinent information per the contract.As to the other question regarding my expected ROI, this was to be a buy and hold with about $250k in rehab (deferred maintenance and improvements).