If I don’t hear from you in the next 10 minutes, I will assume you aren’t attending and I will move on to my next appointment.Using this system as dramatically reduced any wasted time I used to endure as part of the showing process.I have all of these paragraphs set up so I just cut and paste as I get responses.

Corners are cut. 

This is common.San Francisco City, for example, landlords are willing to cut the rent by ~15% but there is no downturn. 

My Dad partnered up with a few neighbors and bought a telephone pole, cut it into sections for each neighbor and buried it 5 or 6 feet deep with the standard height sticking out of the ground.

I'm not sure where you are located or what other flips in the area look like, but cutting costs/corners in kitchens and bathrooms usually means lower profits.

I dont have a problem calling someone out this issue since its seriously cutting into my business and its been going on for several years now even with different agents in that same office.  

My first few commissions will earn me the ability to cut a full day out of my week to devote to RE which will compound into me earning more time for RE. 

This gives you a swag number of what an hour of your time is really worth and you can use it to make decisions whether something should be done by you or whether you should outsource (ie, cutting the lawn).

Developer likely purchased land wrong and paid too much and then tried to take short cuts to make the project work.

I tried to get the grass cut today, and they had trouble, first because they were scared, second they were so much trash torn up, and the dogs wouldn't move so we couldn't cut part of the lot.We will see how it goes, if he decides to leave that will be fine, and if things stay the way they are it would be better if he did leave.