They are usually a pain and you should get a decent hourly rate to fix what ever it is ... 30- 40 an hour is reasonable to charge for small jobs...

I start to feel like my list's pain point is not strong enough.

Obviously these are very generalized numbers and I feel your pain with L&I, they gotta be getting paid by the hour based on how slow and painful it is to deal with them sometimes.

Our pain point is that we have talk to many banks and it seems we have no way of taping into the equity of our portfolio. 

Typically in California, a Will alone is not sufficient to avoid probate - which is a pain, time consuming, and very expensive. 

If you do it all yourself at minimum your looking at probably 5-7k on the kitchen, 2-3k on the bath, 1.5k in the floors unless you are using the peel and stick tiles, close to 500 in pain and supplies.

I feel your pain. 

It doesn't matter how many brokers and REA feel pained and whine and slander guys who don't have a license yet able to make money off their sweat. 

They may have growing pains issues - I cannot attest to anyone else's experience  but as of April 2022 I feel like things are going in a good direction with the new build properties he is developing and he has been genuinely interested in my success with his company. 

This people are a pain in the ***.