As much as possible, Project design will include; passive and active solar, ground source heat pumps and water catchment / recycling.

Milking the situation as long as they can. 

Yes, there are some that need legit help but most of them get the voucher and then suck on that teet until the milk runs out instead of making an effort to improve their situation.

The contractor maybe was banking on shifting the money from that concrete line to bolster profits which is why he's trying to milk that extra $118 from you for the toilet.

Make it look old somehow with some recycled stuff and then just wait.

At my properties in the worst neighborhood, I had 6 trash cans stolen in one year-- probably by the homeless in the tent city down the street for collecting recycling.

It is impact and slip resistant as well.You'll need the following:Cheap plastic cement mixerHeavy rollerWheelbarrowLubricant (wd40 works but you'll need half a dozen cans.)Screed boardTrowelsGlovesRubber crumb (Contact your local tire recycler.

Hence, your ability to expand will change if you can recycle the funds. 

Only issue is I’ll only have capital available for 1 or 2 more of these depending on size due to large down payments.I agree, decisions about investing similarly involve looking out for the future of my son, 3 month old.I want to try and get into using the BRRRR method to recycle my available capital, but don’t feel comfortable doing that in the market that I’m investing in several states away...I may look into doing that locally initially to better understand the process, but need to figure out where to start.

Or you buy where you don’t have to use so much of your cash up front, but recycle it (cash purchase, add value, refi all cash out again, repeat).