I moved in with a friend for a while and asked my insurance agent specifically about this and he wrote me a renters insurance policy to cover my belonging for really cheap.

We are goin the opposite direction from you and we are installing all cheap faucets so that when they clog we can just swap them out.

Their main attraction is that they are cheap but cheap doesn't mean good.

Either get a cheap condo in sylmar or move up to Palmdale.

Get a lawyer to draw them up or at least look them over, this is not something that you want to be cheap about

Yes SC is very easy, quick and cheap to evict a tenant.

With the white cabinets, I find if everything isn't matched properly, it can look really cheap.

Most MLS flips have such thin margins that the only people doing them are novices doing their first deal or flippers with cheap in-house crews.

If so, I'd focus on taking care of those items that are cheap and attractive to renters, like you're doing by painting and doing flooring.  

Outside of that, you have portfolio, private money and hard money loans that will not follow the same rules you are talking about above.My realm is conforming loans and I have used them for my properties because they are cheap and stable long term.