- And more...Let's move past all of the above and focus on understanding and monitoring maintenance charges PMC's bill to their clients.There are two basic components of every maintenance bill, labor & materials.

How about a sales contract with contingencies but with a limit where the buyer can only terminate the contract if their find material defects exceeding a certain dollar amount.

So, we require a nonrefundable Retainer Fee for 90 days of our time to find a rental property.

@Scott Trench - have you considered investing in short term rentals, materially participating, and having the average stay be less than 7 days?

This is the only app I can find customized for tracking your hours and that of your cleaners, handymen etc... Anyone have any experience with it?

If it is a high end housing product you may have to use a designer because they have access to some material/finish suppliers that are otherwise unavailable but that tends to only be for the highest end housing deliveries.

FHA does not allow you to do things outside of the home like adding a fence, hard scaping, retaining walls...   

You should split the costs - labor and materials together.

The house's exterior is constructed of brick material with a flat tile roof.

My advice would be to specifically retain a potential eviction attorney from the start, in order to be prepared for how this *may* go.