Writing them down turns your ideas into tangible objectives you can work toward.

I had no idea what Ayn Rand was writing about was a REAL person: Frank Lloyd Wright.

Write as yourself, not a company, and tell them you are trying to buy your first property in your own backyard and would love to have a conversation whether they want to sell or not (they probably know someone else).

This is where I am at now.I have been writing this post for a few hours now. 

Hopefully you can show where he didn't honor the agreement that cost changes had to be approved...hopefully that approval was supposed to be in writing.

Syndicators write blogs for their own websites and also for other websites such as BP, Entrepreneur, Forbes, etc.

Value Creation FrameworkYou write well and it's obviously something of interest to you, but I still don't hear a "Why" in there.

Thanks Don, that is both enlightening, and created new questions as I have 2 potential deals that could be classified as commercial, both are airbnb portfolios, with one being 3 singe family units, and the other being a single site with multiple units (11 units,themed resort style).

A larger storage building (10X 12 tall barn style) is in the easement and I was told they would move it and move it back, at their cost.The access to the two rear units will be obstructed and damaged by the heavy equipment and the tenants will be upset and don't have another place to park their 4 cars.

Similar story - I'm basically writing off the 10k at this point.