I made the mistake of listening to realtors who pushed me towards using Anderson 100 windows on a few for sale projects citing the name recognition will help sales.

I believe that this approach minimizes downside by exploring the numerous currently for sale opportunities with assumable mortgages.

In the meantime I read every book I could find on commercial real estate; attended every commercial real estate meeting in the Houston area, and spoke to numerous commercial brokers.

You know this but how you negotiate the deal is listening to your seller and seeing where you can take the price. 

The good thing is he did listen to me and did exactly that and confirmed the leak was due to installation of that RTU, but only on 1 side (Carlisle denied to pay for this sor we paid for the repair). 

This is a safe place for my CO investors to vent.In all seriousness, the dramatic policy increases I have seen numerous investors stomach right now is making us all scratch our heads and wonder what alternative options are out there.

I've had people ask me this on numerous occasions and I have refused.

I think I'll listen to one now.

each area has nice features but they are different in valuation >the ranking's in Neighborhood scout don't give any scale.neighborhoodscout provides percentages in addition to the numeric comparison score I find more useful because it is not as easy to recognize if a certain percentage is good or bad over a period of time.  

@Jonathan GreeneI found out and read your post today as David and Rob commented on it in the BP podcast 973, which I'd just listened to.