I'm a GC, and while $500K sounds high to me (maybe you're building a luxury property, which would be more exposed to a correction), I know that no matter what a project is budgeted at, you're likely to go over.

A bathroom remodel that is not completed (in usable bathroom) stucco damage on exterior and exposed slab from in finished flooring project. 

Have to do double the work for normal commission and possibly exposing your license more because of the lack of knowledge of the FSBO.  

I was exposed to notes through my reading and I kind of just feel like that's right up my alley.

If you don't pay in full by Friday, the sheriff keeps your 10% and re-exposes the house to auction the next month.

Bottom line if it is exposed to the market and marketed reasonably well, and does not sell, the price is probably too high.

The only way to achieve this outcome would be to elect C Corp tax status, but now you have the problem of rental real estate inside of a corporation and expose yourself to double taxation. 

I'd nail an eviction notice to your friend's front door so fast her head would spin, and do everything in my power to make absolutely sure that an eviction ended up recorded permanently in Prince George's County books, so that any search in the future would expose it.And then your friend would never be able to sign a lease in the USA to live in any apartment where national record checks are run on possible tenants.

I love the exposed brick...good job.

Are they doing everything they can to expose properties to the widest possible market?