All of this should give you loads of information to get you started...

I charge 1st month and load up on the security deposit.

Beware of contractors that heavily load their draw requests to the front of the job.  

First is getting it out of the truck if you don't have a loading dock.

Any seller worth their weight in salt is going to want a much higher rate than the senior debt (junior debt is riskier, and therefore should command a higher rate) and the likelihood he'll want to amortize that over anything greater than 10 years is low.That being said, if you can even cash flow 1 dollar with zero skin in the game the CoC return is fantastic.

Just lots of quarters which add up in weight really quick. 

I think Atkins and weight watchers have sine informative websites with lots of info

.@15 you are paying someone that may have done it once before and you will act as supervisor and quality assurance.General labor (home depot) can be significantly less and you are paying them to be able to dig holes, move rocks, or load trash.

When you say you're using conventional investment load, do you mean it's a non-occupied loan from a traditional financial institution?  

There are loads of other meetings as well.