You can also get detectors now that have a 10 year battery.

They get it with a stepped up basis and nobody has to pay the capital gains tax on the difference between your basis and the stepped up basis.If you specifically plan to sell, do fix and flips and get in and out quick.Buying and expecting to sell in 5, 10, or 15 years is speculating, pure and simple.

They never do approve foundation plans over the counter, they like to delay it and make it seem that they are doing more work, so they could charge more. lol. pure speculation but could be true.

Is this ever done with the lead investing none of their own money, but getting paid purely for assembling the deal and managing it?

Purely architectural detail and pleasing :)

BTW: ALL laptops have a Three prong plug to the battery charger and a unique cable from it to the laptop. 

(whether good luck or bad) is pure laziness. 

I put ten year sealed battery smoke alarms (and CO if there is gas) now. 

It sounds like currently I need to keep the solo 401k as purely personal retirement.

Fun Fact:  if you take a purely hypothetical 'break even' property at 100k with 20% down, where the rents equal the mortgage plus expenses, and assume that rents rise at the same level as inflation then after the first year your break even property will start to turn a small profit since rent went up, and while your expenses went up, they did not go up as fast because your biggest expense (debt service) stays constant.