If you spend some time thinking about your goals, it will help alot as a filter for whatever pieces and strategy are relevant to you.

We reused the same molding -- I painted the pieces, he reinstalled them. 

I've read a few posts, blogs, books, and listened to a few podcasts here on biggerpockets along with a few books on investing.My plan as of now is to buy a piece of property every station I get assigned to and use it as rental property when I leave that said duty station.

Your advertisement, yard signage, presentation of property and your tone is a puzzle piece working together smoking out the losers and filtering the best applicant down into you property.Frank

Land investing is generally a smaller part of the portfolio.The reason is you are not depreciating the land for taxes and have intensive carrying costs ( money going out but nothing going in ) until you sell off the site or develop it yourself.A commercial piece of land could sell in 1 year or 10 years.

My question is:If I include in my direct mail piece that I will offer a cash referral fee to someone if they refer someone they may know who is a motivated seller to work with me and we end up purchasing the home Is that considered bid dogging?

At the point when the insurance agent sends the quote to the end buyer, am I then done with the insurance piece?

Buy a mobile home on a piece of land.  

I just got off the phone with a couple of prospective sellers who called in response to my direct mail piece.

We were both doubtful that all the pieces would fall into place with the looming deadline, but somehow they did!