Simple, If you spend x dollars in paint you get 10% off, So X= 10 % off, y=15% off, and z= 20% offPRO TIP#6- It is possible for you to get your paint discount escalated but if you buy a can of spray paint a year don't expect to get approved, The most you can do is ask to get escalated and if you do fancy, if not no harm no foul.PRO TIP #7- When you sign up for pro xtra go to home depot.com/proloyalty and sign into your account, when you do it will ask you to register a card.

I believe it would help me tremendously with finding properties, etc so i can grow my portfolio.Is there online classes you can take to achieve this? 

Regulators obviously don't want rent to escalate at such a dramatic rate, outpacing wage levels but the landlords of course will be wailing about how an attempt to align rent price increase to inflation (and up to 8% it seems which is higher than inflation of 3%), will somehow likely trigger their bankruptcy.Would you rather cash flow (and barely in some markets) but experience stagnant or declining property values?

This site offers a tremendous amount of information, but only if you seek it out.

There is a tremendous amount of risk in development.  

But what will help me tremendously when starting out is renting out a room in my first house.

You'll save yourself a tremendous amount of heartache and expense.

Since you are technically more heavily invested as time goes on, with more equity-or cash- in the deal, but your stabilized cash flow stays the same (or increases marginally w rent escalations), your cash on cash return would decrease year over year.

The rates for the former are the lowest recorded so far in 2007.With defaults in sub prime mortgages still continuing to escalate, certain stringent measures have been adopted to prevent the effect from spreading to better quality loans and to the broader mortgage market.

It has been tremendous - way more than we ever anticipated - and thankfully so!