I had rent abated over a cracked floor tile.

You can learn to tile, paint, design, landscape, carpenter, plumb, light or patch.

My experience is that you have to look at a lot of offerings and do a lot of reading before you start seeing patterns that will help you make decisions.  

After we had it inspected, our mortgage company appraised it and my realtor, the sellers realtor and the tile company were all involved.

If you have tiles inside, the tiles will crack.

@Edward Kanive it would be difficult to achieve REPS based on your fact pattern but Id run by your tax advisor for a detailed analysis on it

So first lets separate amateur wholesalers and Pros, (first take out the equation or out of this question amateurs wholesaler) these are newbies trying to make a buck or two, Normally they are just learning out of a course they paid or took.. ( so take these wholesalers out) NOW The Pros and the Cons (FROM a PRO WHOLESALER) (Based on my experience)Second LEt me describe qualities that separate these PRO's from the amateur.Normally I Have seen a pattern These pros have their RE licenses or brokerage, has access mls( even though they don't need to have a license to wholesale ) Second they invest for themselves. ( they are well known in the industry, Locally ) And typically have already a system in place, To provide a consistent flow of opportunities for their investors.

For example, if a house has old carpet throughout and bright yellow paint in the interior with old brown kitchen cabinets, a flipper will take out the carpet and replace it with nice tile, paint the walls a more appealing color, and repaint or insert new kitchen cabinets.

But I want to do the tile myself. 

What are people's favorite stores and outlets in Chicago and the surrounding areas to buy inexpensive tile and vinyl or allure plank flooring?