Much worse, I got a total of four unwanted contacts, including a robocall, from Cameron pushing his other services, just in the two days it took me to block his numbers and email addresses.

You just have to pound the pavement, see a lot of properties, and sometimes be able to buy cash to get the best deals, then do some work to get them to peak performance.

The idea that if you are concerned about being forced to house unwanted people and concerned about the hit to your business, that apparently means you have no cash reserves and haven't planned for problems at all and will go bankrupt immediately based on your poor planning.  

.) -- failing to hire a property manager in an effort to save some $$$ when you're not local AND you're not intimately familiar with the market is almost always a penny-wise, pound-foolish move.

Pound Sand and buy a new one. 

Well, I don't know about your googled math, but I can tell you that the cash measures out to four stacks of a bit less than three feet each, and the bundle weighs a bit more than seventy pounds.

The old "penny wise, pound foolish" idea.

One weighs over 100 pounds.

Spring deterioration is normal wear and tear and hell no a tenant is not responsible for maintaining the springs on a garage door.I tell the LL to pound sand..... prove there is was negligence or a commonly accepted documentation that garage door spring maintenance falls under tenant responsibility for general unit maintenance. 

As a broker the perspective is how easy is the property going to be to sell and how fast will determine a lot.If the seller wants ultra top dollar and you have to make a hundred calls and pound the pavement for a month to find the one buyer will to pay that premium than that is worth a lot of commission.