Yes, I love to write and get thoughts on paper, but I have but have always been too busy working the next deal to begin. 

While asspro works by reducing the target on your back (and by making it harder to collect if it gets to that), unless you structure the whole thing very well, and have your lawyer/trustee sign all your documents throughout all your transactions, from the beginning, you will leave a paper trail behind yourself, relatively easily identifiable if you become the target of an educated person. c.

That's what the OP here has been up against.You can find decent cashflow on paper in Syracuse right now, but not in areas expected to benefit from Micron's growth.

I think as much as anything the TC will make sure your paper work is 100% complete Brokerages out here will withhold your commish check if your files is not 100% complete with all required disclosures etc.

I can do a wet paper towel test afterwards and it comes up pristine, but I also have a dog so it doesn't last long :/

So by putting everything down on paper, you can easily correct the client and keep things moving.You mentioned timelines....those are hard to get everyone to agree on in the original contract because a Contractor knows that a customer nowadays will start changing things as soon as they watch that episode of HG TV with their glass of wine.I included on my Change Orders a line to add time to the project in addition to the added dollar amount.

He broke it down into what most people estimate, what a handyman would estimate, what a "paper contractor" would estimate (I had never heard that term before), and what a full team contractor would estimate, and the difference was eye-opening.

I do a lot of repairs and maintenance myself when I come down in the winter and during the quarters I make the trip, but here's just a sample of things I had to pay for in the last year:Pool screening: $985 (big hailstorm destroyed 13 screens)Irrigation repair: $394Irrigation repair #2: $230Palm trimming (twice: $200Pool light replacement: $950And all of that of course leaves out routine replacement of towels that get left at theme parks, sheets and pillowcases, busted blenders, and a host of other things I can't even think of right now. 

I know they tend to look better on paper, but there's no line on Excel for the headache factor that generally comes with lower class properties.Good luck!

Instead of filing them when I get back to the office in the real filing cabinets (Probably going to still file the paper to make sure there are no catastrophes the first year).