You better find a mentor in Boston, or a mentor to watch your internet mentors, LOL.Look local.

You bet it did.

If you do involve any outside parties, your best bet is to compensate them outside of the deal.

Look at that no extra income statement.I bet there is money to be found it just might be things deemed essential that at closer glance may not be.The 120k student loans are those frozen currently or are you paying on them??

I bet you meant $400 from EACH side?

Due to the era that we live in, with technology and the internet, you can run 90% of your business from home which means being able to use communication tools like the phone to communicate with sellers and email to exchange documents.The key is to know the deal and ask a lot of questions and let the seller talk.

I bet your mom knows my parents.

I then tell them that I will do some research over the internet and will call them back if I am interested.

If you do a search on the internet you key in "batch image watermarking + (your preferred editing software)" you will find a way to automate the process of resizing and watermarking your photos.

I bet if you ran all of his mail through the paper shredder, and claimed that you "never saw it", he would change the address and the problem would fix itself.