Neighborhoods like Historic West End, Old Fourth Ward, and Kirkwood have been so consistent with showing appreciation over the past few years.

@Joe Splitrock  city of Portland has passed some tough laws.any apartment now over 20 units that is build must have 20% for low income.so all that did is have developers apply and receive 7000  that's SEVEN THOUSAND doors IE permits for developments for 7000 apartment doors that don't include this rule  it was all done Q 4 2016.new law went into effect Q 1 2017  take a guess how many doors are being applied for in the entire quarter.... 175 that's it.. in our region we build about 10 k housing units a year  about 60% SFR rest multi... building new buildings in the city of Portland will come to a trickle and there will be NO subsidized apartment units like the politico's hoped for.PDX also just had another measure that was being voted on this week.I have no dog in the hunt as I am strictly a value add guy and builder.

MF you have more reason to be there and I have to go quarterly for fire inspectors or send someone else. 

I use Buildium for our in-house property management but they are having issues with Happy Inspector right now so I have been looking for some different apps that we could use to do Move in, Move out and quarterly inspections on our rentals.I have looked at SnapInspect and zInspector which both look OK.Hoping I can get some feedback and/or reviews on those two or other apps that landlords are using and like for these types of inspections?!

I have a virtual assistant on Upwork compile a list of realtors, brokers, and agents every fiscal quarter or so.

After going back and fourth we knocked off $3000.00 from the purchase price. 

Plan out your year by Quarter and then by month and then by week.

@Michelle Damiano Chase isn't going to sell a one off residential note unless it's in a pool trade of $50M...Sorry but its not worth their time to do it on a one-off basis...I'm direct to their VP of special assets and the pricing for these pools are in the 60-70% range and not worth it when you can get better deals elsewhere.A few years ago a group was selling classes based on buying from the big banks...they were more interested in selling education without delivering real deals...big waste of time.While smaller regional banks do sell on a case by case basis, or have quarterly sales, Chase, Citi, Wells, BOA aren't in that group.  

I would send a letter a month for three months, then a letter every quarter. 

Put it in front a judge and you're going to lose.At this point, you should expect to do four things - 1) Pay someone to draw plans2) Pay someone to tear the deck apart3) Pay someone to build you a new one4) Pay the current contractor for his progress to dateGiven your situation, I would probably not rehire your current contractor.