My question is: if we redeem our personal credit card points for Lowe’s / home dept gift cards to go towards supplies/materials/cabinets etc, can we deduct that as an expense even though we used a gift card vs a credit card or cash?

Forgive my oversimplified view of the world, but does seem to me that supply will increase to meet demand. 

You may get a finders fee or find a deal and they supply the funding and you split the profit.   

You have a running toilet or a leak in your service line (or somewhere else on the supply side).

It seems to me accepting bids for a rental would only benefit the landlord in a very competetive rental market with low supply/high demand where you might find high quality renters willing to oubid each other just to get into a place. 

He claimed if he didn't get the money he could not buy supplies to complete the job, which would be done in a week(I knew this wasn't true).

But ultimately it's supply and demand.

@Don KonipolHi Don, curious if you can recommend from your research, any CF platforms that supply JV equity on ground up apartment development projects.

The parcel is in an unincorporated (Bay County) portion of Panama City Beach with water and sewer being supplied by the City of Panama City Beach.

And a cheap “upgrade” was simply supplying washers and dryers to each unit.