Where I am (Southern California) many (most) municipalities regulate minimal recycling percentages, making haul off and dumping more involved and more expensive).

Have you tried Milk St Capital?

We are late in the RE cycle, and I'd bet that both SV AND Austin are closer to the top than the bottom for this cycle, but believe that both have excellent long term prospects.

Trying to milk the deal for the most you can get out of it will increase the odds of this not working out for you. 

He's either recycling old material, doesn't have any of the proper paperwork (good luck when he breaks something important), or isn't going to actually deliver quality work.  

Milk it for the equity paydown and appreciation for those 5 years then sell. 

Now the power of this is the ability to recycle your money over and over while you collect cash flow from a larger portfolio although it's all leveraged.Let's now look at the $90k purchase.

This would be historically speaking totally normal in the RE cycles respect. 

Something is expensive for a reason so is something cheap.First, we're approaching the later part of a RE cycle so almost everything is expensive and over-priced.

., they ALWAYS have an excuse as to why they can't pay it on time, but the recycle bin is continuously full of empty Colt45, they always have enough cigarettes, and there's a different car in their driveway every couple months.We got $250/mo. over market rent when they moved in, but because S8 doesn't adjust that often, and the condition, we've been denied twice to increase their rent - and are now almost $200 below monthly market rent.