I'm exposing my soft underbelly and vulnerability is perceived as "weakness" or even incompetence.

Each town/office/worker is different and it's hard to paint them all with the same brushes.

In many cases, they could be snacks and soft drinks.

I do buy tickets for stocking stuffers at Christmas, how ironic.Stanley, learn the basics of RE, brush up on contract law and agent's duties, you're running off into the ditch and need to get back on the right road.

The raceway actually serves as a ground and all I had to do is to bond the switches or receptacles to the boxes with a pigtail and that's all I need to do.However, one has to be very careful and make sure there is continuity all the way back to the panel, all it takes is for one modification by an ignorant home owner twenty years ago and disconnected something and use a section of NM/MC/BX or even some PVC conduit or smurf tubes and created discontinuity and you have to hunt that down.Besides electrical, the other thing that scares me a little is a tanked water heater with a T&P valve with a 3/4" outlet but connecting to an old 3/8" or even 1/4" soft copper tubing that goes UP then behind the wall and no idea where it comes out or if it does at all...yikes.

Your soft costs including finance charges, real estate taxes, utilities and insurance start to add up in eating away your profits, the longer you hold the house.

A similar, commonly used metric, the loan-to-value ratio, compares the amount of the loan to the fair-market value of the project.Plus you have hard cost and soft cost.

I'm not talking about soft goals like, "Leave a legacy for my children."  

So we're a few flips in now and we've only used IKEA cabinets with the soft close hinges.

Total construction estimates could be as much as $16,000 before we have even had a true estimate on a potential foundation repair (bricks are soft and crumbling in a few places).