The important thing is to make sure the program you choose can grow with you. 

Is it just personal preference that one would choose a market with a population of 100,000 over 250,000?

No matter where you buy one thing to factor in is the price of flood insurance if you choose to finance.

Its not the agents responsibility to figure rehab cost that would be very bad for an agent.. and the investor knows the comps and knows what the homes are worth when rehabbed and what they rent for.. asking an agent to figure this out for the investor is ( well just means your not ready for prime time and you as the investor have not done enough home work and are trusting others when you should never trust others).At the most a good agent that is choosing to work with investors  should present the deals.. and the comps.. its all done for you on the MLS.. you provide that info... that's it.When one of my newbie agents walked in all excited about this new buyer that wants to build a power team and wants to start shot gunning offers.. my response was  get the investor in here I want to talk to them personally... ( my goal is to not burn out my agent with a all hat no cattle seminar or BP Newbie)...

For our current flip in which we are in the painting phase, we chose a subway tile that was being discontinued and thus inexpensive, quite some time ago and are using that as our template to choose the paint.  

.- If you choose to sell the property, you can gift your daughter the proceeds.

In choosing my brokerage, I chose one w/o lots of training, it is the School of Hard Knocks.

Condo associations (members) can legally set any rules they choose providing they are not in violation of any laws.

I have take the filters off to double check and when I choose a Quadruplex I get zero.Is there another potential option to make something happen?

I realize that the buyers will probably want to just go with who they choose as their inspector, but if that inspector is "not" qualified on foundations, if you have a foundation inspection from a qualified company they should be able to see that this is not an issue.