Your Cash Flow drops to $197.55 per month.The final thing I would recommend is to shop around for your Refi Lender first (before you purchase a property). 

I'm excited to be here.You are right, Seal Beach and Rossmoor are both great communities with desirable locations as they are conveniently located to shopping, major freeways, great schools and of course, the beautiful Pacific Ocean.

Using the same people will help bring down costs.ps I would NEVER shop for quality repair people on craigslist.

Right now, though, I really think you might be served better by tunnel-vision and those books will start you off tomorrow on a one-stop shop. 

**The strategy I'm trying is to prepare plans and permit applications with architects, then shop those around to GCs. 

If you must provide you can get a mini one for like $30, less if you shop secondhand.

As others have pointed out, selecting carpet and a thick padding, or adding insulation, or additional sheetrock, will help do this.To address the vibration through the structure, you need to provide an isolation layer, which can be a floating floor on isolators or a dedicated acoustic ceiling hanging from springs (these can be complicated and expensive).I've been involved with a few projects in NYC where we added an isolation layer, but these were for noisy workout studios below and above apartments, NOT for stacked or adjacent apartments.

Ask your tenant to push a shopping cart of groceries out of a store or similar and excuse themselves based on life's challenges, see how those business owners handle it.  

They were probably paying under market rent, so when they started shopping it would be hard to find a new place at similar rate.

My wife and I are supposed to close on our first two investment properties in December (Single family homes, 1 Seller Finance, 1 Rehab on adjacent lots, in Central PA with a buy and hold strategy).