Aside from that, it sounds like you should take care of your personal expenses and if it slows down your property purchase, so be it - you'll be stronger financially after you get through those expenses anyway and build your reserves back up.  

If you work with her on this, and she is not playing you, it will make your relationship stronger and she could become a great long term tenant.

I love it when they run 50k over budget and then when they go to list the house the market is magically stronger than it was two months ago so they list it for 50 k more than their original plan and then there is a bidding war that runs it up another 25k. 

Lots of foreign nationals - from many different countries - use high cash value life insurance policies to store their wealth in stronger currencies.

Banks will take an older man/woman more seriously, you most likely have a stronger financial statement, your credit has more longevity, etc.2.

I think awareness of these issues is only going to get stronger.

I managed vaca homes for sometime in SAV and the return is much stronger than long terms renters, you get paid up front, and take a deposit in case of incidentals.Would love to talk about my strategy and see if we can help each other learn!

As you get into more properties and have stronger cash reserves, you get to hire out the crap you would rather not do.

Even then, if I wanted to negotiate, wouldn't it be a stronger position to have recommendations by a certified GC over an Inspector?

I would say comparable if not stronger than the South Florida market.