As an employee, we get a great discount on materials.

For example if a tenant moves out prior to the lease ending or gets evicted, is there a discount on the next tenant placement fee or a partial refund or credit for the fee paid?

You could also offer to take the property off their hands, as is, via Quit Claim Deed(s) from everyone with a legal interest in the property -for a substantial discount on the price (25%)?

There were many months where this stupid note was costing me 1-2k a month in legal fees (and due to the circumstances yes, we had to go forward) and the old cliché about "you only need to set aside 3k for legal" would have sent me straight to bankruptcy. 

I am in an investment group and the whole group uses him exclusively so we get a discount on the lists. 

When you are dealing with a lot of rents per month, sometimes you need a person to talk to in order to get things straight when there's an issue.

As an employee, we get a fairly substantial discount on materials.

But please set me straight if I do. 

Original owner was supposed to fix POS and I'd buy at $105k - 6 weeks later, said he wouldn't do it, and I negotiated a discount down to 73k.

As you can see this is not a straight line, it's a curve.