And my experience was 18 months at best for term .. some went longer of course but many just went the first 12 months then moved and left a semi trashed house. 

I am basically always looking to buy if it fits my buy box. 

This is too important and also sort of a personal question depending on your state and specific circumstance and I suspect not a one size fits all answer would suffice. 

The contractor will give you better pricing the more you use them, some GCs increase their price, but those are the ones you would like to not use (side note, of course with inflation you need to pay your people right, but it needs to be reasonable).

Setting a goal doesn’t merely guarantee the outcome by course.

The company I use has patched the issue since then, but security is ongoing, of course.

Cash portion of purchase price (of course!)

I came home and told my wife that I wanted to sign up for the $40,000 course.

Im not sure how far RWN should go to make things right as of course not doing your own inspection and appraisal is pretty stupid.

Of course that’s the first red flag!