IT's a human business, and it's all people to people.

My mom has never met her real father but has been looking for him her whole life, eventually she was able to relay a message to one of his ex wife's and asked her to pass the message along.

You should make life easy for yourself and use state contracts.

On TV you will see ads that with a college degree, you will makes so much more money over the life of your career.

Better might be something that pays the bills but exposes you to RE (construction, office work for a company in the field).At some level assume that a sales job might be great training for life but a real negative for credit.

Repairs and maintenance done piecemeal (and often at "afterhours" overtime rates), and especially low quality repairs that you end up Re-doing in a year, will break you.Or, you take into consideration that when it was new, the property had a design life of 40-50 years, and now, most of that life is used up.

Check the state regulations concerning HOAs.I know that in one state where I purchased a new condo there is a law (about 5 years old now) that requires there to be a reserve fund set up and the costs of all items to be estimated over their effective life.

*I've found that such people typically turn out to be horrible clients, because they do not know what they want starting out, and will continually add on and change things throughout the life of the project.

He is a human being and has a brain.You have got to find his hot button-what is his situation?

IMO he needs to sit these two kids down and explain the facts of life.1.