Regarding delayed advertising, early marketing is a common practice to minimize vacancies, so you may want to negotiate this with your management team.

Would love to learn more about some best budgeting practices to account of these two costs ?

Practice your pitch!

Practically every deal in Columbus follows this rule, so you won't need to do much due diligence.

The checking account will draw against and pull from your line of credit to deliver your funds assuming your line has availability still (debit to line and a credit to your checking account).I’ve experienced , utilized, and have monitored how these tools work for over 10 years+ in practice and operation. 

Throw in a dose of imposter syndrome and fatalism and you have a recipe for some mood swings right before a property is booked again.From a practical point, I would recommend great photos, a clearly defined target to whom you are advertising and understanding the best pricing of an area really well to ake sure you get booked in a timely fashion.From a more meta perspective, be aware that these listings don't typically get booked well in advance (families displaced by flood or fire, traveling nurses who need a new contract ASAP, and construction projects that realize they need a speciality engineer on-site RIGHT NOW don't book ahead). 

Frankly, these practices are detrimental to our industry.

I am in the process of purchasing 3 properties all right next two each other. 1 multifamily and 2 commercial office space of which we plan on using a significant portion of for our medical practice.

Hi Alecia, thanks for the practical tips.

HI @Jyotin GautamShort answer is no in Texas Long answer according to the Texas Real Estate Commission " Under the amended rule, a broker could give an unlicensed person a gift of merchandise having a value of no more than $50 and this would not subject the unlicensed recipient to a charge of unauthorized practice as a broker, nor result in a violation of TREC rules by the broker giving the nominal gift."