I know these years of buying my t-shirts out of the nine cent box at the thrift store (yes, this does exist) will one day have a positive ripple effect on everyone important to me.

@Catherine Barnes  no question rural oregon just like rural WA has very high unemployment.. but the PDX metro area which includes vancouver WA.. job market is robust. anyone who wants to work can work.. anyone not working is not working by choice.there are signs all over the place and banners in front of retail stores looking for workers..

Blast that audiobook/podcast on the way to work, the gym, to the store, back home.

After you have gone through the free info, there are also books available through the Bigger Pockets Store.

I know how you feel when you walk through and look at private items and or personal items.In those cases we just hauled everything to the dump... and got to work. if the old owners are there are in contact of course we accommodated them on retrieving their items.I suspect in this case you would be fine and I personally would not store anything... from the description of circumstances you have laid out.

Additionally there is STNL properties that are free standing single tenant buildings such as a pharmacy, bank, dollar store, auto store, restaurant, etc.The value of those properties tends to be based on location, quality of the tenant, length of the primary lease left, and any termination clauses or where it's a NN and not absolute NNN.You won't find a brand new regional or national tenant property at a high cap rate.

There's a guide you can read here in getting started with flipping houses https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2014/01/07/flipping-houses/You can also try J Scott's book on Flipping Houses on the BP Store

They are available at the big box stores and it's very easy to change out the plug on the dryer.The older plug/outlet  is still legal on existing houses, but not legal on new wiring.Unless you have an issue with the current wiring, I would not change the wiring or the outlet.

I know there are stores that have an entity hold the real estate and have another company as an operating company in case of lawsuit.  

.- Yes I will pay buyers agent if I go the FSBO route- I will hold a open house and planning to get one of those PODS thing to store the clutter (and possible hire a staging company)- I thought the HOA docs goes straight from the HOA.