They would not renew unless the roof is replaced, and liability limits were cut in half.  

If you don't want to cut your realtor out completely - have them list the house for you when the renovation is done! 

1) Significant Rate Decrease2) Minimal Rate Decrease3) Keep Rates Steady I do not think it changes anything - they already are pretty much guaranteed to cut rates.

If there is something that I don’t feel I can accomplish with professional results, while cutting costs, I would contract that out.  

Let the electrician cut his/her pockets for pulling the new wire and do the patches, then seal everything with an oil-based primer and repaint.

We self managed the entire time, even remotely, because we found the cost of property management to be too high and it cut into small profits.

I figure that almost all of our flooring is made in China anyway, so I'm wondering if I can cut out the various middlemen and buy directly from the manufacturer. 

My mortgage would go up $781 for the next 30years,  the ADU income would more than cover & I hope to pay extra principal to cut my loan time -it's just I was hoping to pay off ADU within 5.5yrs- so that I can collect 'all' ADU income at that point <I'm fixed income & I lose 'some' personal income in 5yrs so trying to plan ahead on how to recoup that>.

Here's why. 1) If you take 6K off the loan amount, it drops your payment $41.44 per month but, if you take the same 6K and buy down your rate by .375%, your payment drops $226.73 per month. 2) While experts are predicting the Feds will cut the Fed Fund Rate, that doesn’t have a direct correlation to mortgage rates.

I have a wooden retention wall as attached which is about 30 year old I think from the time when this building was constructed, I have made slope down on right hand side corner last year for landscapers, tenants to go into ditch to cut the grass rather than leave it become mini forest with poison ivy plants as well there.