I have 10 SFH all within one hour drive so my weekends are spent driving to the houses and, of coarse, to Home Depot.

Tools, gardening stuff, and other things related to upkeep.

Worse comes to worse I lower the price and sell within a month or 2. putting repair items on the home Depot card, where I guesss you dont have to staret making payments for 6 monts.

I love to watch an area for new Home Depots, Targets, and other big retail firms.

Those guys stand outside Home Depot wants $150 a day of temp labor work.

I think you can also do the following from your desk:1) research materials and their costs on home depot and lowe's websites so that you can become familiar with the cost of materials for basic projects and things such as doors, windows, tile, bathroom items, kitchen items, etc. 

We redid every kitchen (Home Depot cabinets and counter tops), refinished all the old hardwood floors added new blinds in all the 2/1's.

You need to look beyond at Winter Park, Altamonte Springs, Apopka, Lake Mary, Winter Garden, Ocoee, Clermont, Minneola, Davenport, Kissimmee, Windermere, and more.

I live in garden city currently so I was planning to start close to home like Westland, Livonia, Dearborn/Dearborn Heights.

As far as a Lowes VS Home DePot VS Sutherlands VS Menards debate, that's a personal choice.For my local market, I have 3-4 good quality custom cabinet shops within a 10-45 minute drive from my house.