I to have been burned by contractors, Im sure most people have.

You can’t stop the house from burning down after you incurred costs, but before you’ve closed. if you’re leveraging, you can’t change interest rate (much.) you can’t guarantee that you don’t have a year of rent loss because your state decided to put a moratorium on evictions. did you see the case in California where the guy sold his house but didn’t move out?

Doors (or clients) that require extensive and constant attention from my staff are not long for this world and will be cut loose.As @Richard F. mentioned, clients fall into those two categories (micromanaging, time-sucking parasites who place zero value on the value of your time, or the "don't bother me unless the house burned down" clients).   

You have very strong equity in your current home, but you don't want to burn it all and make your house worth less with more leverage.

I don't know what you do for a living, but you could try burning the candle at both ends.

Sometimes lessons are only learned after being burned yourself. 

.: @Marcus AuerbachThe thing I always think about when I look at the homes along the golf courses is how much I really don't want to know what goes on in them.I love strolling around barefoot in my backyard early morning with a cup of coffee before the sun burns off the dew.

So I have a question, I have a property that has a main dwelling and  that has a carriage house (ADU) in the back it was my first property ever bought I was severely underinsured on the carriage house. Last month my n...

We're in real estate and will cross paths again eventually, doesn't seem to make any sense to burn a bridge. 

That value hasn't been realized, unless you refinance, or get secondary loans, and doesn't guarantee future value.Also burns me up when they pass a bill and say they know it is unconstitutional, but they'll let the courts sort it out.