Now the regular pages are just the same words I hear on podcast.When I started my one and only SFH I spent 1/2 year longer renovating than I planned almost doubled the budget, moved a family of four and a dog into a 700 sq ft home, slept in laundry room had no a/c(I work in extreme heat) almost got a divorce, lost 600/month for g months longer than I planned, had cops called when I found perfect tenant three times in two weeks had “maintenance calls” three times in in a month.

Tenants who want to argue with you also need housing so if you can drag it out they will realize their time is better spent looking for a place that will accept them. 

I spent the summer furnishing the house, to include building bunk beds in my garage.

If I agreed to (I always have to sign off on the agreed to work from the inspection) complete a bunch of repairs, spent the money and time fixing them, and find out the buyer backed out anyway (simply backed out, with no other reasons) I would be with my attorney on what money above the EMD I could possibly be getting back.

In a "perfect world", a PMC would be like an attorney and be able to track how much time they spent on an owner's property and bill accordingly.

Now your tenants are happy, and you have minimized the time you would have spent speaking to your tenants about the delay or fighting a warranty company.

I spent so much money trying to bring that place together that I am literally tens of thousands of dollars in high interest credit card debt.

I spent approximately three months researching various markets before meeting @Travis Biziorek through BP. 

If each of my contractors charged me $500 every time they pulled a permit, I'd have spent probably close to a quarter million dollars for contractor pulling permits over the past 8 years.Considering a typical permit costs about $50 and takes about 20 minutes of time (let's call it 60 minutes if you add in the extra driving time), that's means I should be paying no more than $100 to have a permit pulled -- the $50 for the permit and then up to about $50 for the contractor's time. 

I spent time researching and learning about real estate investing.