In my experience, often times a skilled tradesman can keep a piece of machinery going, so at least in this case mom has heat while we sort this out.

.- Wall color: light gray, satin gloss- Trim color: natural white, semi gloss- Trim type: 6" baseboard- Counter: Quartz, eased edge (https://www.lowes.com/l/quartz-countertops.html), $44sqft "A" class, gray--forget the name, or the beige (Tina really needs to go the Lowes and look at all pieces together.- Backsplash: Picked out already.

The texture will hold water, and the more sill, the more water it catches.It also looks like there wasn't any caulking around the trim pieces, which means water is going to collect in between them and behind the tile no matter what.

I own properties in the Midwest.Biggest piece of advice..

One piece of important context: Both my wife and I are early 30s and have good paying W2 careers.

I've never seen a dresser and thought, "What a stylish, thoughtful streamlined piece of useful furniture." 

Ironically, I am not on one piece of social- my wife has a small presence on insta and fb(for the properties) but I have zero and am going to keep it that way.

They are very  different and it’s an important distinction to understand. 

thanks for all the work you have put into the podcastmy number one piece of advice for every new investor in chicago would be go check out “straight up chicago investor” podcast. the last episode is a deep dive into the struggles David Greene has had with his portfolio in the last couple years and Mark and Toms podcast is the first place i’ve heard this story.

There are many different twists on "Turnkey".IMO, the "truest" turnkey providers are the one's that have property management in-house.Not because they necessarily want to be in the PM business.But because they have to be in the PM business.That's how we started.Thanks and happy weekend  I do not know your business well enough to say for certain, but I strongly suspect that if you developed a strong referral partner for the property management piece you'd be freed up to do additional houses each year, your customers would do better and buy more from you and you'd wind up with the same or higher $$$ at the end of the year.