(I also don’t like giving or receiving bites of food in a restaurant.

This could approximate a true market discount rate of real property for valuation purposes.If you are not running a REIT and writing a whitepaper on modern portfolio theory for alternative asset classes like real estate, you'll likely find more success as a small real estate investor using "3. comparable sales" and talking the capitalization rate jargonIf you do take on the task of determining the market discount rate, please post your methodology and assumptions; I would be delighted to review and provide feedback

I'd be more than delighted to help Ron achieve his investment goals. 

Hmm...I was hoping someone would loan me money for some Chinese food!

okhere is your challenge for the weekendyou will go look at five properties and make a offer on oneso this evening you need to put together a checksheet for evaluation your properties- copy and pasteyou will look in the paper and Zillow, reltor.com or whatever site that can put you in the neighborhood you want to do your flipget up at 6am eat some food and do your meditation or whatever it takes to get your head in the gameby 8am you need to be in the neighborhood to look at the properties you want to flip or holdso by 6pm tomorrow evening you should have a good idea of what property you want or look again on sundayby sunday evening you should have two that will workMonday you need to write your offerthat's how you get it donenow go get it doneyoull do greatenjoy

That way, when it turns out better than expected, you will be delighted!

Currently renting a place for also $1100 a month (this was before I chose to start being smart with money), but will be out in <6 months.I make about $3200 a month, but obviously have other expenses (food, gas, car maintenance, etc).

Working at some fast food place, retail store, super market, etc is just a flat out waste of time.

I liked where someone suggested installing permanently mounted screens over the drains so that food can't go down.

There's a number of other cities in the central TX area that may better align with you're what looking for.Just some food for thought.