Are his sub contractors captive subs that work on all his projects?

Assuming you really mean "self-insure," a good rule of thumb is that setting up a captive insurer only makes sense if you pay between $100-$500k per year in premiums.

There were engineering company's, eviction services, Coin-op washer/dryer purchases and leases etc, the full gamut.One of the vendors, a licensed tax preparer, captivated us all with her seminar entitled "you can write off almost anything".

Your problem was that you were working with captive agents who did not have access to the right programs.

The use of pictures and taglines are critical in both overlapping industries.In fact, the ability to write a captivating headline may make the difference in filling your vacancy within a few days or losing a month's rent.What do you think?

Captive equity so not really available to deal with expenses or unexpected repairs.John Corey

You will have a captive audience that still needs to pay for a space, will probably be paying you a higher interest rate on seller financed loans and the park will probably have less vacancy and be better taken care of when those living there own their homes.

He gets a lot of people paying him 1k to be a captive education audience and feed him really high profitable deals. 

The smaller ones are usually  "captive" to one company to shop policies and that's basically all they offer, which is limiting when you want to grow in future and if you can truly get the best rate.try these guys and get  quote for your policies.

I am not concerned about the risk of theft from the machines and am not concerned about much of a drop in income from changing to a system like Payrange - primarily because tenants are a bit more of a captive audience than someone who is going to a laundromat.