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Ask them to explain how you're supposed to have a warranty w/o them giving you the receipt.3) Labor Charges: should be defined in your PM contract OR they should present a bid for your approval with labor & materials.Now a couple of thoughts in the PMC's defense:1) If you didn't get a receipt, how did you match the exact same model at Lowe's, so the price of $530 is apples-to-apples?

What that means is that if you win, they let you win and they didn't want the property of they bid you up.These are the basics, but I think you were way ahead knowing it's not ripe to be an acquisition pipeline.

That being said, how does one go about getting architect plans for a home to get bids from contractors in a smart way?

The 4-8% management fee,  and getting charged for every basic maintenance task, they are not motivated to get you best cost on bids and usually add a percentage for supervising, did i mention its a 90 year old building?...

Buy in Austin, Dallas, Houston and you can get bids for work from 2 dozen contractors. 

She had a bid from him for 20K with materials, and my contractor 24K with materials.

I want to understand how many properties are bid on by third parties and how many revert to lenders.

He submitted plans last year and did not win the city bid.

I found it on auction.com and I just bid on it How did you add value to the deal?