I would have to agree with this - appraisals are no exemption to the general inflation/rising costs of the past few year s- $750 is hardly outrageous and investing in non-warrantable condos and with HOA restrictions is always going to have a risk for hiccups

My brother in law told me a few years ago that I was the luckiest sob he had ever known but it took me 33 years of living below my means and working hard to buy enough rentals to retire with the same standard of living that we were used to.

Ive had such a hard time scaling up my business.

I learned the hard way how to shut off water and how to winterize.

24 hours of labor not allocated to each of the issues is really hard to break down, but it does seem a bit high.

@Gamal Harding thanks for responding!

I was able to figure out that they had come upon some hard times and were significantly low on cash.

While this is a way to buy property for most they burn out in the first 6 months since its so darn hard to do it..

I learned the hard way how to shut off water and how to winterize.

I know with a hard money lender, you lost good amount of profit.