Real estate is a game, play it and have fun, learn to be a master negotiator, don't worry over one deal, there are thousands more waiting to be found by a smart buyer like yourself.Your score card is the amount of equity or cash flow you are able to accumulate.

After the 1st it's late, ends all the game playing.

So, be careful my game playing investor friends, know the rules and follow them!

If you do not have enough construction knowledge to manage a project, you expose yourself to precisely the kind of game-playing you encountered here - where it sounds like you were charged separately for each task that is involved in a simple window replacement and that in the normal course of things should have been included in the quoted price.  

John Thedford well if you know so much tell me where to begin, remember bigger pockets is a social network for investors to learn instead of bashing other investors why you don't teach some of us newbie how the game play.

These game players just keep coming like a Freddy Krueger!

Certainly it may appear rather one sided however if you were to read my entire contract, which has been challenged a couple times unsuccessfully I might add, then you'll see I am not in the game playing business.

It is not worthless and has a risk reward ratio to keep the game playable and interesting.  

. : ) That's the game played in America and how well someone works the system in their favor the better they tend to do over time. 

I have taught to a lot of so-called buyers in Memphis, but they were all game players.