She loves going to garage sales to pick up good quality furniture.

I pick the largest office and question the officer experience. 

Then you want to find out all the expenses associated with the property, like taxes, who pays what utilities, what the current vacancy rate is etc. 

Uncle Dan’s catered my wedding and I am about to go pick up a smoked turkey from there.

Any real estate investors in the Hyattsville, Washington DC area that I can pick their brain on obtaining that first property.

Anyone can go pick up a crap property and try to pawn it off on someone else, which is where the lack of trust comes in. 

I don't want to get sucked into analysis paralysis with this.I don't want to pick any random state, but then end up starting in a different state and have to deal with being a foreign entity. 

Plus you can get reduced kilowatt rate in many geographic areas, if the electric utility certifies the primary source of heat is electric. 

I'm still trying to find out how to better utilize the foreclosure information. 

However, they don't have any employees, and very rarely have customers stop in to pick up orders.  99% of everything is marketed online, sold, and shipped out.