If you're doing this a lot Amazon has a 5% cash back American Express card that is highly beneficial. 

We are looking at post card designs from Yellow Letters as templates, but we do want to re-word them to suit our business.

I don't really have a dream job (at least one that I'd be qualified for) and I've got a lot of life left to go.

Any direct mail will cost you much more than $100 for postage alone for a decent number of cards. 

Make sure you get a bunch of business cards made and give one to every mailman you see.

Manly men, as opposed to girly men).Kegorator, electronic darts, poker table w/cards & chips, BluRay player and a collection of porn, Roku or smart hdtv, gas grill & charcoal grill, suit of armor, life size stand up picture of Marilyn Monroe, .22 cal pellet gun with pellets and pigeon/starling/squirrel bait and a critter count score board, horse shoe pit, firepit with several tons of firewood, that's all I can think of right off the top of my head.

If I refused to rent to someone just because they had a credit score in the 500's, I would have missed out on some of my best / longest term tenants.thank you, i am really going crazy by not knowing how to handle this situation.but in almost all cases the reasons they are in the 500s is because of late payments on credit cards, isn't that an issue?

So you could in theory just pay for your renovation on a credit card or personal loan and pay it off after refinancing.  

We walked out half way through it was clear they were having us call out credit card company to raise our limit so we could pay two arms and a leg for what B.P already offers.

Getting into real estate has been my dream since I was a girl.