@Joanna Hollingsworth, I don't know if this will be much help to you since you are trying to protect the hardwoods below, but I'll usually take a large steel wrecking bar and attack the floor like a mad man by ramming the bar between the plywood layer and the wood flooring repeatedly with force, utilizing the tools weight for momentum, and prying straight upwards at the end of each stroke.

Unless you're having them sprayed, get the paint additive that smoothes out brush strokes. 

Since I had a brain annurism and stroke I figure I can just do a part time thing.  

@Duke Marquiss  if you offered on Auction dot com with cash they won't let you close with a loan you need to stroke a check or lose your EM

The one thing I am concerned about as that was before I had a brain annurism and a stroke over 5 years ago.  

A commercial lender would (or should) be sensitive to hard money terms since the hard money loan would have a short maturity and if the borrower was not able to pay the hard money loan off, put the project in jeopardy of default.Kind of some broad strokes but generally a full doc loan (commercial/conventional) would not seem to go well with a hard money loan.

What is a GOOD deal is in the eye of the beholder.You are mentioning commercial real estate with a broad brush stroke and commercial has many sub-asset classes within it.

One of my disabled Section 8 tenants (he’s been with me the whole time, cool dude) had a stroke and was in the hospital for a month.

Different strokes.

If the tenant went to the hospital for heat stroke I would have been done.