A small consultation fee is better than a large retainer and a prolonged situation which would see arbitration and possibly an appearance in front on a judge. 

Our experience has been that in cases where there has been prolonged smoking by the prior occupants, the only way to rid the most affected areas of the odour and harmful residues accumulated on exposed surfaces is to gut these parts of the property back to the studs.

If I were the Landlord, a neighbor of my rental property contacts me about these problems, I will fire the PM and evict the non compliant tenants who allowed prolonged damage. 

So I want to make sure, if we do buy this house, we're not backing ourselves into a mortgage we can't afford and prolonging our real estate investment career.I don't think we'd re-sell the house once we purchase, not immediately anyway. 

There are several new projects taking a prolonged amount of time to reach stabilization and we believe underlying vacancy for the entire market, to include smaller buildings, is higher.

. These things are prolonging the insurance process. Please take this into account when scheduling the closing process and plan for the process to take a few extra days.

People get so bogged down on making a perfect website (Which has not given me very many leads) , making a perfect business card, making a perfect yellow letter with the perfect lists.. that they actually just prolong actually getting started and taking serious action.Your objective starting out is finding a solid, Juicy deal.

A prolonged drop would definitely cause some cutbacks in drilling. 

Batching, at this point, prolongs my vacancy.

The thing we want to avoid more than anything is having a non-paying tenant living above us who requires us to go through a prolonged eviction process which is more trouble in DC than most places.