The biggest reason was that our command staff would get distracted and do something really bone-headed like "Hey, you ordered windows 3 weeks ago... right?"

Finally, pricing...leave some meat on the bone....we all have to eat, so does your GC.

I don't think anyone mentioned that if you stay highly leveraged on the properties or don't have any personal assets there isn't much "meat on the bone" for a lawyer to go after.

What if this person sprains an ankle, or worse, breaks a bone?

The value in this deal is adding additional square footage for much less than the market values that footage, combined with improving and polishing the existing bones.

There was still enough meat on the bone for a good investment.- Because I am still foreclosing- there is still a chance someone can bid up the price or that the original owner can repurchase it.

My biggest recommendation is to duplicate others success, the type of success that makes you feel good...... this business has many great things about it but many that will suck your bones dry.  

Check it out, its a bare bones run down of the process (in my experience at least).http://forums.biggerpockets.com/viewtopic.php?

But if that is what it takes, i have no bones about it.

No matter how many times she calls him or I call him, he (the seller's agent) is a lazy bones.