@Elizabeth Colegrove   Thank you for your warm welcome and sharing your experience I will store it in my file cabinet of memories as a reference for when I get to that point.

I feel you as you go to the home improvement store yet again.

Do they do custom or are they still pre-made like the ones I would get at a big box store?  

I have had a computer crash and wanted to store the firms info in Colorado,with the hopes someday I would need it.  

So I recently purchased a multifamily home in a great location, near bus lines, freeway on ramp, shopping center 2 mins away with gym, restaurants, gas station, grocery store etc.  5 mins to walmart, theaters, medical clinic, higher end restaurants etc.  

Our tenants tend to want fireplaces for ambience and enjoyment, not as a heat source, so no large amounts of wood need to be stored. 

Way better than what you might find at the big box stores.

We went to the local used appliance store and negotiated a package deal to put a w/d in each unit. 

If you are in the ghetto, don't start spending a ton of money putting in higher end finishes (I openly admit to putting granite and stainless appliances in my ghetto rental, however granite is VERY cheap here in FL and basic stainless appliances from scratch and dent stores are not that much more expensive and add a lot of impact.)I have another rental in a nice, blue collar neighborhood.  

What attracted me to become an agent was the simple fact that I will make as much money as the effort that I put into it, and because I was always the hardest worker at the retail store or being a grocery clerk and never found it to be fair that someone getting paid the same amount as me can slack off and not do anything and get the same pay.