I have saved up around $40,000 and can't wait to start my life in real estate. 

I think some inspectors are overly cautious for their own sake or have a save the world philosophy where they would rather see everything replaced then accept anything borderline. 

Listen Use those issues as leverage to get the seller to drastically reduce the price and use that savings to fix the problems .preferably by doing the work yourselves .

Hi Kristin,We have used Ultimate Kitchens Direct (also online) out of Banner Elk, NC.  

If you can save the tenant $25/mo on heating, you might be able to raise the rents a portion of that.You may want to talk to an appraiser and see if new siding / windows would help with your valuation. 

For more info on the particular neighborhoods in the Birmingham, Alabama metro market take a look at The Ultimate Guide to Grading Birmingham, Alabama Neighborhoods.

I don’t have any savings to pay for a lawyer and I owe about 150k on the property that was just appraised for 200k.

He added that Trane furnaces are what he recommends but if I want to save a few hundred dollars I can buy an Ameristar Furnace as it's made by Trane (but isn't as sleek-looking, which accounts for the discount) - but he stated it's of the same quality. 

Its 2018; I can have Siri do the work for me in under 20 seconds, saving me time and bandwith.

Ideally, I could have the crew’s take a picture within an app, it’ll populate certain data, and they input the building and unit, then save.