Depending on your margins, a new AC may wipe out your profits for a year.  

After maybe 3-4 times looking at properties there I just basically wiped Ward off of my list of potential places to invest.  

I wouldn't necessarily throw the baby out with the bather water here. 

Should I hire a lawyer to perform a quiet title to try to get some of these wiped out? 

The leverage piece of real estate is critical and since leverage can make you rich, it can also wipe you out in a fell swoop, which is why you have to have equity.Stick with it, find a better deal.

As an example if I know that I need to pay $1,780 a month on bills (not counting my student loan down to $17,000 from $300,000 in the last 20 years) I know that I need to flip 3 cars, or 445 boxes of baby formula or cereal, or one acre of land in North Carolina.

I've had a two-bedroom apartment wiped down and the odor was gone in a day.

Haha, it's less patience and more necessity with job move plus baby birth and now having another one on the way.

Wiping away all mold with moldicide.

I would consider trying to put baby powder in my hair to look like I had some gray so I looked older, but never pulled the trigger!