@Geoffrey KleinJust a suggestion, go to your local Benjamin Moore store and ask for a recommended painter that works in the area, they usually can provide you with some helpful insight 

People travel from all around to buy stuff from them and they are opening up a new store in Muskogee, OK  in 2 days.  

hi, my rental history for the last ten years or so reads like the story of a troublesome gaurd dog. i slept at night in the office of a check cashing business at a strip mall; i stayed in the show room of an antiques store; i lived in a warehouse without the owner's knowledge that i was sleeping there. for the last few months i have been living in a cheap hotel but they raised the rate. the owner of the check cashing place does not want to tell anyone that i was living there. the antiques store owner was literally insane and is now an unreachable transient. the owner of the warehouse learned of the situation as i was moving out and so is not a good spokesperson. the twist here is that a moneyed relative wants to pay my rent on a more permanent place. they will cover 2k/month no problem. how do i approach prospective landlords?

@JD Martin I can’t find google play music in the App Store.

Investment Info:Mixed use 2 commercial building , one building (4 apt units, 2nd floor) 2 store front (first floor) and  one large (5000sqt) storage building  attached buy & hold investment.Asking price: $650,000What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

There are things I wouldn't have to do such as carpeting because my local hardware store installs for free with purchase of carpet, etc.

@Willis Chur - I’ve worked with a few investors in this same bucket.. high liquidity but unsure where to go with it.I’m a seasoned investor who took a small amount of their money and set up 12 month - 60 month promissory notes at 5-8% interest.

I've been just getting started in the whole prospect of real estate investing only a few months now, so I'm very new and ambitious. 22, full time salesman at a furniture and flooring store in Massachusetts but I've only been here for a few months as well so the plan was wait until I've been here at least a year and save up that 3.5% to house hack a duplex in the area.

As a manager of a hardware big box home improvement store for 10+ years now, I oversaw a $3 million store remodel, while managing to run the store team, General contractor, fixturing contractor, electrician and meeting deadlines throughout all 4 months.

At worst there is a black swan event due to the hyper-connectivity and systemic risk that is present in our financial industry due to the consolidation of the too big to fail banks which could lead to a Cypress-Greece style credit freeze and liquidity crisis.I hope I am wrong but I am hedging my portfolio in the chance I am right.