It hurt me for a while because Iw as being too "cheap" and lost out on some great deals. 

They typically cost 35-45% less there and still offer delivery, some items were new in box even!

As in a I want to do this as quick and as cheap as possible..  

I'm currently working with a budget of at most 100k. I plan on living in a 2 unit multi-family so I'm not trying to put myself in harms way. I'm open to both New Jersey and Pennsylvania suburbs. Any suggesttions would...

Got a wrecked one you can pick up cheap enough to flip, flip it. 

go buy some cheap houses.

I was looking at Home Depot and most of the selection has more ornate design than I want or is MDF which just seems cheap to me.  

Or...Buy a cheap single family home that needs some work, something between 25K-50K, put 10K-20K into it to make it nice and somewhere would a family would like to live, and then charge between 800-1000 for rent.....and buy multiple properties like that.

If you want a cheap & dirty solution you can take it down, paint gorilla glue inside all the splits, and pull the door back together with 48" bar clamps.  

Florida for instance - there are plenty of people on BP that can probably tell you the good areas and the bad areas, the expense areas and the cheap areas, etc. etc.