The maintenance fee cut hard into my bottom line.

Identified opportunities to cut cost on finishes; we went with a different design that usual so we found that we over paid for some of the finishes but built relationships for future projects with a better understanding of cost.

Today that seems a bit high, but unfortunately a little while ago  I got one around that rate right before the FED started cutting.

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If the lawn was cut perfectly, add $1000.

Advice on how to give the wholesaler a cut and how to structure the deal for the seller?

That's never going to cut it.I would recommend selling your current house, hopefully you break even, and then buy a good MFR to house hack for a while (look for 3- or 4-unit properties, if possible).

That said, if it works in your favor-rehabbing or whatever-no harm in cutting the tenant a break.

Thus, you may be able to arrange an off market deal and cut out the broker.2.

I'm guessing they are some kind of 2nd quality product that didn't make the cut at the manufacturer.