ATX has seen rapid appreciation and strong population and industry growth.

I know sometimes you can't just get everything at Home Depot, but it has a rebate program, plus it emails you receipts, so you don't have to carry receipts and scan later, so try to use Home Depot as much as possible (it looks like you are already doing this.)If you buy a paint for House A, and light bulbs for House B, buy the paint and check out (get a receipt,) and then buy the light bulbs (get another receipt.)

Afraid that someone is already scanning the listings of daycares for sale or rent in that area? 

There is also a large group in Ann Arbor and one in the Grand Rapids area.

my bank scans a copy of the deposit slip so I can see it when it posts.  

For CA in an area with rapid rent appreciation, some might consider those pretty good numbers, although personally I am worried about what happens to rents in a few years when our cash crop moves mostly from personal grows to commercial operations -- for me it's a short to medium term play in the area.   

Kalamazoo, East Lansing (Lansing), Ann Arbor (better to get Ypsilanti bordering Ann Arbor) and definitely Grand Rapids.

im scanning through the site right now.

just like @Marcia Maynard, but we keep all information scanned in and kept online in with a secure document storage.

Either get a fire proof safe or bank locker and now a days there are a lot of cloud based online storage solutions available as well but they will of course only have scanned copies not originals.