On a few I had a GC mess up and had to fire him. 

Last thought - windows is a safety thing, they need to function in case of fire escape?

I sent over an amendment to extend close for Oct 28.I guess the seller and the listing agent had some sort of dispute and seller ended up firing the agent in the middle of my option period! 

The thing I would be worried about is that these two properties will consume your entire life, you will have to overspend on both, you will overdo it on both because of the attachment and will end up with properties that are worth way more to you (emotionally) than to the open market.Your area has starkly rising insurance costs because of fires and the property in Carlsbad being near the water now has strong flood risk so your insurance and holding costs are going to keep going up and up which may hold down the overall value.

They cannot see the forest for the trees....

They’re great and have about 50 employees... plenty of fire power to handle multiple jobs

Any delay or failure in the performance by Landlord hereunder shall be excused if and to the extent caused by the occurrence of any event that is beyond Landlord's control, such as fires/ floods, earthquakes, wars, sabotage, terrorism, vandalism, governmental acts, injunctions, or labor strikes, acts of God and any other occurrences that are unavoidable or unpreventable despite reasonable efforts to prevent, avoid, delay, or mitigate the effects thereof."

Always know the trade-offs.If you do a long term rental and are OK with potentially weaker appreciation, your money WILL go a lot further in NE Raleigh, Wake Forest, Garner, Knightdale.

Quote from @Forest Williams: Hello BP Community,I finished a webinar on Tax Overages and the presenter is offering training for $1500. 

Many items were completely unnecessary which I stressed to RL, but after a couple of conversations it became clear they did not want to budge, which made me fire them.