Also, make sure you understand whether each line is a bid/estimate or allowance and how eats costs for overages, and if you come in under, do you get that money returned. 

Every month, when he got the chargeback billing, about $15.00 he would rave about his wife and him eats take out food, no time to cook, and his landlord has a large family, constantly cooks, and have people over for dinner.

You want your cake and eat it too!

I guess I'm conscious with the risk but bullish on the longer term outlook.

They will eat the overage. 

Plumber might be able to find a smoking gun when he snakes the line but otherwise it might be hard to prove tenant caused it and you'll just have to eat the repair cost.

We see on social media how "our" money(reduced rent)  that was supposed to be saved up for them to buy a house, spent on vacations, eating out etc.  

But if they accuse me of fraud, attorney fees could eat the  $1,400 quickly. 

Hi Alex,This is a commission based career, meaning we eat what we kill.

That said, old lumber was usually old-growth and some of that lumber is virtually petrified so that nothing's going to eat it or rot it.