Focusing on securing funding, partnering with quality contractors, and sourcing off-market properties certainly seems to be a winning formula.By prioritizing the purchase price and understanding the needs of both your lenders and contractors, you’ve managed to create a sustainable and successful investment strategy.

So that in mind, the "secret sauce" on how to get discounting from builders is doing it in a Win-Win manner. 

That is how AC can make a house 76d when it is 116d outside.B) Yes, when the average global climate temps rise, it will be more difficult to cool the average home....and conversely, when the global temps drop (which they do in a cyclic manner over the millenia) future AC systems will have an easier time of it :-)

@Nancy Stark thanks for the play by play on yalls situation and I hope it gets resolved in a copacetic manner. 

What has best sustainability?

If the property manager is getting paid, the repairs are made correctly and in a timely manner and there is fat to be trimmed.

Very tough city to get a project done in a timely manner. 

I'm looking into a loan from the SBA to complete repairs sustained on a rental house during Hurricane Beryl.

- the law does not appear to state in what manner the tenant has to make that demand.So, reading the applicable law in whole, element by element (as all laws should be read,) I take from this law that, unless the tenant makes a demand - even verbally (for which there may be no witness/evidence) - only then is the “14-day” clock even triggered.

It is the delay in getting financing in a timely manner so that I may begin my rehab on my fix and flip that is making me feel not very confident in their ability to deliver.