I didn't mean to imply you act that way, on your own tuffness is standing your ground, making the rules and insisting they comply, it's the psychology behind it with a bully, not getting into a fight or a yelling match......

If I implied that I wanted to enforce terms of a non compliant contract then I am sorry it came out like that.

Charging an additional security deposit implies to be that they are accepted under terms agreed to, that isn't a denial.

I'm in NY state.The book gives cost ranges for each of the individual rehab tasks, but certainly won't tell you how much things will cost in your specific area, using your specific contractors, working on one specific house with a specific set of finishes at a specific time of year given your specific ability to negotiate.As that last statement implies, no book can ever give that information...That said, the purpose of the book is to provide a framework for how to learn to estimate rehab costs, how to generate bids and how to put it all together so that you understand the process of creating a rehab estimate. 

The higher the price for NOI would imply that the market is saying the DEAL is better than if the market is shunning a NOI and saying, well I'll take the chance to get the same NOI as the profitable properties selling at a 5% cap rate but I'm ONLY buying at a discount (10%) BECAUSE it is probably NOT a better deal. 

Look right next to both of our names, and it says "lender," implying that both of us have our license hung somewhere (a bank, a mortgage bank, a company, pick your nomenclature) that directly lends money, which isn't true.

You seem to imply that this issue keeps occurring so please elaborate and I'd be happy to offer my experience with this. 

Tenant went to parents and implied I should get them a hotel..

The very first thing to do is look on Zimas, as @davidfeathersone implied.

Lots of nuggets buried in 50+ posts...A few clarifying points:[list]Early post implied that starting an LLC would make claiming real estate classes as business expenses 'easier' or 'less in the gray area'.