Life is too short to do something because you "owe it to someone," except in the case where you really do owe it to someone because they went out of their way to make an *extra* effort for you.

If you have other things in your life that require lots of time, it might make sense to allow this to occur.

The inspectors down here make your life miserable, when they walk through your door they look for anything they can get you on regardless of what they came for.

I saved around $600 on the roof by buying around 20 bundles of roofing from the local Habitat for Humanity Restore that the roof contractor was able to use and match...Actually, overall the roof came in more expensive than I thought it would...I had only budgeted around $175 a square...The electrician who worked on the house works for a commercial electrical subcontractor and moonlighted for us for around $25 an hour.

Part of me sees leaving the scene if there's an injury as a horrible thing to do as a human-- while part of me wonders if they had some personal crisis or hit a parked car and planned on contacting the person later to pay for damages.

A letter basically offering to make everyone's life easier when splitting an estate by offering a quick close, no contingency offer to buy the property involved in the probate proceedings.You can buy probate lists, or you can find details on your local city's website of the probate proceedings in your city.

If any costs, including vacancy are excessive, then your total costs will exceed 50% - this does happen to landlords in real life, so it's not unheard of.As I posted earlier, direct your 50% rule and 2% rule questions to those other sticky threads - you'll get more people chiming in.And both sets of revised calculations (one with 50% expenses, the other 40%) seem to be correct (I didn't plug in numbers into a calculator, just looked at how you got the results).

A lot of it is naive residential brokers who beleive anything they hear and think they can make a life changing paycheck on every deal so they promote bogus programs and or "lenders".

Remember, you are operating a business, so remember to always treat it as a business, not an extension of you personal finances or life.

I am actually from Milwaukee I lived there my whole life.