If you tell him to pound sand, which you should, I wonder if he would sabotage this deal for you?

If the big box store simply sent out their own installer, employee, then your argument is with them directly and I would be pounding my fist on the table and causing a scene in their store.. but that's just me...

That's called Penny-Wise & Pound-Foolish - in my book!  

I pounded on his door when I was there last week said either bring it current or I am going to evict you.well next day wife and daddy show up with 5 months of rent in cash.. but alas did not pay aug and sept so I called yesterday and said dude U now owe me 6k pay this week or I am posting eviction and by the way get your dad to buy this home for you.. :).I had one tenant who could not pay rent and heat so I said no problem don't pay rent through 3 months of winter and then we will just add it to the summer rent.. well end of three months they just move.. 

Contractors that are great have lots of options for work these days so investors trying to nickel and dime them for high class work at cheap prices they can tell that owner to pound sand.On the commercial side for retail used to 3 years ago you could get high quality builds for 100 to 105 a foot.

He started by pounding the pavement for student housing deals, reaching out to his network, and building his team.

Great post,  This year has been really great for me, moving from SFH investor to bigger deals,  one of my primary goals for 2018 is starting doing syndications, finish selling my portfolio of SFH,  buying my first 50+ spaces MHP, increase to 4  wholesale deals per month,  paying my bad debts,    I almost forgot, lose 30 pounds,  There is a great event for goals by the Real Estate Guys Show,  I have been there several times and it is amazing,  

The Pet policy was changed to 2 animals and with dogs, they needed to be under 50 pounds each.

Also, work your lists to target people who aren't being pounded by your competitors already, the lower hanging fruit.

Mine weighs 300 pounds.