There are fraud audits immediately after loan closings.

I can't believe I missed it since I've invested in the rust belt years ago.I understand that you're looking at price, but let me tell you from experience that price is one small piece of the picture.

What are reasonable rates at which a seller is willing to carry a piece of the note when selling an apartment to you?

This is probably a remedial question, but a topic I have never seen discussed before. What are you using for the return addresses on direct mail? I would assume a P.O. Box would be the most logical "return address" to...

. $20 for a 80+ piece socket/bit set in a nice carrying case.

In 2011 I spend upwards of $5000 that year remodeling much of my primary home so I never reached any limits, but that amount was pieced together, not all at once or within one month.

Does anybody know where I can find smaller pieces of granite, have it cut, and installed?

It took me another 12 or so years before I bought my first piece of investment real estate.  

It sounds like you intend to keep some of the original pieces of the home, perhaps you are just going over the older walls with new drywall?

Final piece of advise, leverage any small tight nit community you happen to be a member of.