These quick methods are used to make offers but you should always get a licensed and bonded contractor bid on the rehab and maybe negotiate your offer lower if you have an inspection contingency.

This will give you time to pay down your Credit Card Debt, strengthen your FICO, build your Capital Reserves, etc.

You really need to look into the A/B/C/D gradations of MF properties, which are sort of like credit ratings on bonds and determine the risk of the property.

Maybe a "stand bond" pattern or "off center staggered" pattern.  

Especially when I see what happened to others in the last few years who had most of their money in stocks and bonds.

I know I am stating the obvious but this just strengthens my belief that recent nobel piece prizes are not legitimate.

Primer isn't just for painting light over dark, it bonds the paint to the surface below.

Make sure the contractor is bonded and has insurance.

New PVC pipe get cemented with PVC cement, making a leakproof bond.

Junk bonds and Canadian Oil Royalty Trusts, for example.