But many of the local investors seemed to have two prices, one for locals and one for "fruits and nuts".

That is low hanging fruit, i've spent years building my business up to where i'm paid much better than that.

All the easy (and not-so-easy) fruit has been picked. 

I think many entrepreneurs are looking to work hard for a short period and then enjoy the fruits leaving the work to others. 

This woman went nuts.  

On Saturdays directly in front of his storefront he has had a third party sell fruits/veggies. 

Being that the property has to be FHA approved and already liveable, the market climate here in Cincinnati, OH isn't very fruitful.

In the instant situation I would be interested to see whether the title company's "approved" list of notaries happened to be staff on hand who make a few extra hundred $ for the title company.it drives me nuts when I close deals and the vendors want to use OSS out of FLA.. they want a mobile notary.. well they also want to charge me for said mobile notary..

The headache of this for another year would drive me nuts personally. 

I wanted to go in with a paint gun prior to ripping out the carpet and just go nuts priming/sealing everything (since there is a ton of old stained shiplap panelling).