Any items/furniture in the yard is used at your own risk. 

Builders typically charge 2-3X the market rate for those items, which becomes a new profit center for them, since you'd be throwing that credit away if you didn't use them. 

He added a construction hold back and other items.

One of my challenges might be that I'm still carrying undergrad and business school debt plus some credit card debt, so I'm still determining what financing might look like.

-Unless the garage already has electric and water connections, that's an important and expensive item in the SOW.

But if you want access to the benefits that people like me have contributed to, and collectively spent decades and god knows how many millions of dollars building, why would you think you should get access to those items for free? 

I'd ask the junk removal people what took them so long to empty the fridge and ask for an itemized invoice. 

Due to item 1, adding an ADU can require years to start achieving any return (once the accumulated cash flow recovers the initial negative position).4) Adding an ADU is a slow process.

Things such as hot water tanks, carpets had to be replaced in a few years, so I wound up depreciation some items more than once.I sold a rental last year for $430K that originally cost me $70K as an investment property.

I recently switched insurance carriers for two of my rental properties and about two months after coverage started, I received a letter for each property with a list of items to be remediated within 40 days or coverage would be revoked.