Trust me; you don't want to miss those crucial dates and risk losing money or even blowing the whole deal.

Those who blow it off eventually lose eligibility.To ignore the correlations is nonsense.

@Ryan Vienneau I'm a Buildium customer too, and it blows my mind they don't have credit card tracking in 2017.

One of them hired a landscape guy, well, the landscape guy never came so I was paying $140 per month for nothing for about 7 months.The other property manager didn't tell the tenants they were responsible to replace the ac filter, that bill was $1000 to replace the AC fan motor.I am really afraid of blowing off the money.

Final thought is to make sure switching lenders doesn't blow a contingency and sink the closing that way. 

I've seen smaller guys do a good job on 49 projects in a row than totally blow it on the last project.

FYI, if you're cash strapped - not the worst idea to potentially partner up with someone to soften the blow of the $30-$40k for the garage/rental completion. 

This is what blows my mind about the cults of seller finance - they teach you to pay anything for a home because you can put little money into it.

I like investing in cities that are blowing up in terms of population, job growth, and companies moving and developing there.

Given that some of that would be your contributions that were paid with after tax income, especially after other REI tax benefits offsetting the blow, the cash eaten by taxes/fees wouldn't be as bad as the back of the envelope math suggests.