This also works well for hard to reach or busted nails especially when removing shoe or quarter round moldings on floors.

The elements beat against the front door and you're coming in with wet shoes for a good part of the summer months.

So is Dad putting in any money or just a contractor bidding a job, is he looking at property and telling you to buy or not,(keeping you from disaster) repair/rehab estimates ect are you using his subs that he has built a working relationship and trust over the years withwill you make him wait to get paid when the deal closescould he be working else where getting paid like normalfirst try to put yourself in his shoes, last thing you want to do is have a family mess over businessWith any partner I always have multiple discussions,  a meeting of the minds, then a waiting period (gut check) then PUT IT IN WRITING and the way I explain it to folks is that it makes it easier for everyone to rememberfamily dynamic can kill a deal or make a fantastic fun enterprise

If I were in your shoes I would absolutely team up with a property manager or a wholesaler on the ground in Kansas City.

I get primed pine shoe molding from home depot for 0.23/lf or white mdf base molding for 0.57/lf.To install you need a floor kit, hammer, and table saw. 

This old hound dog just wants a new pair of blue suede shoes!

If you have this estoppel then you can provide it to your legal counsel if and when it may be needed.The alternative is to threaten to walk from the deal unless the seller agrees to have escrow hold back this months full rent and the security deposits purported by the tenants to having been paid until such time as the landlord can leverage the tenants to comply in validating the information in the estoppel or the seller can produce documentation that supports their claim that no security deposit exists.If I were in your shoes and didn't know exactly what my legal standing is as a buyer under a contract for sale or post closing as a landlord with allegations of existing security deposits from tenants I might be evicting before receiving any rents I would contact an attorney post haste to get sound legal advise.

Is it true that they require the contractor to begin the job fronting the startup costs himself (trying to put myself in his shoes)?

If you were in my shoes what would your next step be?

Sometimes I try and put myself into regular buyer shoes and think about what I'd rather have to finish to make the house as I want it.