You're feeding 2 dogs with one biscuit by taking care of your living expenses and generating rental income at the same time, and by living in the house and keeping it to 4, you generally get exemptions on things that might bother you to live with (IE you can choose whomever you want as your tenants without running afoul of fair housing laws).

Seller might claim that the contract wasn’t fair and equitable to begin with, or use stalling tactics, or they might say they need to move into the property because they are getting divorced/ lost their job/ need to move their ailing mother into the property, etc. and anything along those lines might make a judge more sympathetic to them than an investor buyer looking to turn the property into an STR. 

Quote from @Portia Dampier: Hi BiggerPockets community,I’m fairly new here and somewhat new to real estate investing.

If you get a quote significantly below the numbers above you need to ensure that the contractor will actually execute the work and perform it to the required standard. 

Now to be fair the company we are funding is a Civil engineering firm with deep experience..

I love my CPA just wondering about what a fair price is for a CPA to do our taxes.

I do not find your complain about getting on their marketing list fair.

Your property is fairly destruction proof, costs near nothing to maintain, yet you can charge above market rents.If your property is nicer (class B) where the carpet alone might be $6k or more to replace when the tenant spills hair dye everywhere, you won't be as happy as in the situation above.  

I don't have personal experience with it, but when the app was first developed, I contacted the developer and put the app through a fairly robust test usage to see if it's something I would want to recommend to my clients (I'm a CPA).I think the app is great for its intended purpose and I do recommend it to my clients now (and have for about 18 months now). 

Things like a new roof can range - here in Philadelphia where i do a lot of work, our flat rubber rowhome roofs are fairly inexpensive and standard . . .