Your last sentence is pretty much the best explanation on why to have a financial advisor.  

Hopefully, the recession will reduce labor and materials costs but the business model is not dependent on it...it's dependent on the first sentence. 

Just reading how to phrase sentences of the phone/email/letters would be so helpful. 

Here's the first sentence of the license definition for who is required to have a license...Who Is Required To Have This License? 

It only gives one or two sentences of description for each service, so if you want particular details like I do, you're going to have to visit and dig through each vendor's site.https://www.landlordology.com/getting-started-onli...   

Do good locally and maybe it will 'pay forward'.Require politicians to be bonded, like a locksmith or other tradesman entrusted with the public good and safety.Make crimes committed while serving in office a more serious offense requiring longer sentences or larger fines.Bring back public flogging.

The other one Malcolm can fund the repairs myself.It's bad enough when you speak in third-person, but please try not to mix in first-person references in the same sentence...So really what Malcolm is lacking is not vision or a plan, its financing so that either I can do a short pay or a short sale but with the intent to get the property back in Malcolm's name.You were clearly lacking vision and a plan when you purchased the properties.

If you don't understand every paragraph and sentence, you can't explain it to others.

A simple sentence will work:"The Effective Date of this contract is ____________" {you can fill in the blank with an actual date, or a statement that the effective date is the the date the last party signs the document, or whatever}This will clear it up and you won't have to worry that one party thinks time periods run from a different date.

IMO tenants and fireplaces don't belong in the same sentence!