I am currently in my last semester of college and am working a job that only pays me $15hr to sit at a desk and forecast all day... which has been driving me absolutely CRAZY.  

Should I tip him or offer him more money to d a thorough job?

I'm currently working a W-2 job that I could probably retire from after 30+ years or so of just doing the norm (my partner is a CPA but is a stay at home dad).

@Mike D'Arrigo i am saving up by working two jobs but i am anxious to get things done to move on to another propery.

I also have a lawyer as an advisor that I may occasionally sit down with and pay $100 consults from time to time to ask legal questions the first meeting with this individual  is this coming Monday.Currently, I feel the situation is much better  with the tenants the  situation  that is going in  is crappy for both of us with water coming into the house but I am constantly working on remediation of the situation.

I've seen that, and worse, in my day job.

Anyone have a good solution or example of what they might be doing to offload this cost and help their tenants realize they should turn the faucet off occasionally?

Looking for a handy person that can quote the job for my friend.

Unless you're doing majority of this work yourself ($10k on contractors could be one job), you're already in at 80% of the arv before any repairs and sales commission (about 9-10% easy) and your buying closing costs. walk away. 

FLY out occasionally.