However, I feel like a weight is on my by extending the loans out!  

Hi Matt, You are correct, she is thinking that because she paid so much in advance she can throw her weight around.

Especially on an older home, the frame may not be designed to hold all of that extra weight.  

We have a lot of weight (and liquid capital) behind us, so we can negotiate faster and harder than an individual, we know how tax auctions work and can place competitive bids, we're built to find solid properties that need work, and buy them as cheaply as possible.

Weight that against the cost of just having someone come out there sooner, and you might find it's a wash. 

It's in a high raise building, where each square feet weights.

Well, last night I lightened up my keychain (felt really weird to not have that weight in my pocket). 

Instead of getting up on the toilet, turning around to face forward (putting 100% of body weight on one side of the toilet in the process), planting both feet on the seat, standing up, and squatting down (for #2 or #1), which will cause the bolts holding the toilet in place to come loose (our toilets are built to assume weight roughly evenly distributed on the seat).

I care more about the last 3 years of activity, and don't put as much weight on medical bills, because 1 really bad day in the ER can ruin you if you're not really well insured.  

This would be a whole another kind of learning curve, but I can't see paying $122/door in Charlotte for $950 blended weighted rent.