And tenants have many tactics to slow down the process.

In other words, if you don't fill your unit in the slow season because you're afraid it will cut into your high season revenue, will the high season revenue more than cover the difference?

What you’re counting on is even a slow rate of appreciation, say equal to barely inflation, called it 2-3% being multiplied by 4 or 5X because you only put down 20-25%.

That's SLOW - but effective. 

Due to the confusion on their end and their slow response, it's costing me more money than if I just went directly with the vendor from the start.

You have just made it thru the slow season of every year.

It’s much better to take it slow than to partner with someone who isn’t the right fit.Good luck on this one, it sounds like a great opportunity! 

But, this will be front-end weighted and gradually slow towards the back half of the year.

I guess so they could tell Chris (who seemed to be travelling all the time) they were still working.I met with the original contractor, the one that had told me to come to Spokane, and he explained that he had slowed down the work because he wasn’t getting paid on time.

Pretty tied up today, so I might be slow to respond.