Summer time, rates are higher as these guys are busy, so they tend to throw out big "if they pay great" numbers to control their business flow.I agree, if it's there and it was working, it needs to be fixed.   

You could practically throw a dart at a Columbus map and it would hit somewhere that'll make a good investment.

Hire someone professionally locally to work for you and oversee manage the project (a construction manager).Some examples I can provide having worked in the construction industry is - soda bottles filled with urine in the walls, food thrown in the walls, throwing coffee down duct risers, sheetrocked over outlets providing fire hazard...

If your talking large commercial multi million dollar contracts to build one building and the GC has his own personal JET then you can get into that nitty gritty at our level U try to control the best you can and hire who you trust Since you are paying your GC a straight $1 million (not including the throw in lot), that's a fee of about $11,000 per home or 1.2-1.7% of the stated home sales price.

One option I would throw out there that no one has mentioned yet would be investing in a syndication.

Now Cousin A owns only half of their home and throws away half of that exemption (as it applies to the capital gain from now forward). 2.

It’s expensive and time consuming to collect or foreclose—especially if you can adroitly throw wrenches in everything.Once you’ve done that you go negotiate.

Subsidizing tenants and helping the government out for a while, until they will throw the towel in.

I will throw out some thoughts here for consideration, but this is not intended to be a rebuttal.Personally as someone who cooks, has cooked in a commercial setting, and a man, I really only care about function and not looks in my kitchen.

You are probably throwing your money away if you are planning to hire a "guru".