While this isn't a hard and fast rule, more often then not, these are the guys that can't manage their schedules well, and will be gung-ho on your job for a couple weeks, then be flaking out as they picked up too much work and are trying to keep too many homeowners happy.And lastly, the more detail you have the better the bid will be with few change orders.  

You’ve got this—one deal can change everything!

I have 200k their asking 800k nd dome change.

Property prices determine rental rates, which are determined by population change.

Hi Jordi, The conditions of city neighborhoods have not changed much from opinions previously stated on this thread by my fellow local investors.

I think that will change in six-12 months when the apartment building boom slows significantly. 

If you are limited to those areas for residency, and you choose to keep that job, you are going to have to either a) wait for a couple years and save up a heftier down-payment, b) change your strategy like you said and go for houses further away (do flips, STR or BRRR).Or, if you are sold on the house-hack concept, at some point you might have to look at a different job that allows you to move where house-hacking will work....

Maybe that will change.

Hopefully you can show where he didn't honor the agreement that cost changes had to be approved...hopefully that approval was supposed to be in writing.

We just went through a rent increase on one of mine and I'm moving it over to a property manager and getting payments changed over has been a process.