She is a person who reads every line of a contract and will not sign if she feels uncomfortable with anything (which is good but makes this sort of process slow).

Thank you hopefully I can keep with my daily routine and network enough to get my first flip in my belt bay mid year.

Let's pretend we're in NYC, where rents for studios routinely run $3000/month. 

. , we have income less PITI, less lawn care on the duplexes, less routine maintenance (5%), less turnover costs (7%), and misc items like education (1%).  

I also don't like having them on auto-pay since I routinely pay the mortgages at different times throughout the month as the rent checks come in. 

On the other hand, I acknowledge all offers, let the buyer's agent know should the seller wish to counter or reject I will also forward that immediately, and forward them to the owner....but if a buyer's agent tries to "demand" a response, and starts the "I'll call your broker routine" I remind them that the owner is not obligated to respond, I'll forward it if he does, here's my broker's cell number, but in the mean time you're going to the bottom of the callback list and "have a good life", in other words.....

Would that help it to sell faster, or is it one of those things that commercial builders deal with so routinely that it doesn't even come into consideration before buying?

Competing offers are the norm in many market segments and owner-occupants of the standard 3/2 in a decent neighborhood are routinely outbid by cash buyers (either investors or bay area transplants).What can cause that situation to change?

There will be routine sampling (microbiological and chemical) required and a certified operator must be hired to make daily chlorine checks on the water system.

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