It would cost a great deal more to proceed without meeting codes and then fail inspections.In my humble opinion, you are better off paying a decent fee to the architect rather than cutting corners and having a bunch of missing details and code issues.

Then, right when I am thinking about giving up - that is when amazing deals are right around the corner.

Or maybe they just pull the data and store it in a local database and access it ... interesting.

I started in retail at a grocery store at 16.

The only thing I can think of is to watch for cars that are obviously being stored on the street.

Do you just go buy from a box store or are there better options for investors? 

I have a buddy who is anti-obama and has been telling me all the data says hyper-inflation is coming around the corner.  

Many Realtors do it this way so you recognize the business not the brokerage.In Wisconsin, there is a realtor who advertises his company name, with a little brokerage logo in the corner.  

Invest in a small lockbox $30-$40 from HD or your hardware store and if vacant unit put it on the apartment/house door and provide the code to the individual companies going out to give you a quote that way you don't have to be there everyday.

Then they have the product placement display where the name of the tile, granite, etc. store is prominently shown (is the flip getting the product for free?)