Now, I take full responsibility for my ignorance here and just blindly signing things, especially as someone who deals with commercial finance regularly and has his own clients sign similar fee agreements.Honestly it just never occurred to me mostly because I was just so damn excited to sell the house and be done with it.

I feel so blind when I talk with the contractors a lot of times and wish I had a better idea about was going on. 

First things first - 50 K is good money to do lot of things , These "things" might not be just exactly buying a house , but you should try to know what is the best use for that 50k which will give you a reasonable return /break even / slight loss - but the most important thing is , After that project you should gain some practical knowledge abt investing in US Another important thing that I learnt - never take anything that anyone say here as an absolute thing. we all have our blind spots and biases .

I just had one that renewed for her 4th year and just happened to ask if she could get new blinds on all the windows.

Personally, I've had better success sending blind offers to owners and taking it from there.Happy to help any way I can. 

I hate that blind test someone text you .. you have no clue and they just start talking like you suppose to know who what or when.. so I just ignore all texts..  

I recently had to replace some water damaged ones, and having struggled with this stuff in the past to do a decent repair job because of the blind tongue & groove nature of it, went to Harbor Freight and bought a 1/4" air crown stapler for $20.

I look at them then 3 months later its a new set of people with the same direct mail.. but a blind squirrel does find an acorn now and again.

I always put up cheap plastic mini blinds.

It is not blind hope as many would like to believe.