And you possibly over improved the house .  

To me, this sounds like the seller is literally STEALING the buyer's future appreciation profit by charging him/her up front and cashing in on the future appreciation of an asset they didn't help to improve.

I knew Cousins was going to get let go by the Redskins when I saw him practicing with sponges. 

Marvin has been in practice over thirty years with an expertise in complex real estate law, including the negotiation, documentation and closing of complex financing, acquisition, development, leasing and sale transactions.

In practice, on the claims I've done, they will hand over the additional amount once you have a signed contract to do the work.

Practice makes perfect when it comes to analyzing and you will also notice which wholesalers are sending you deals and which aren’t.

If you go it alone, rather than add to your list of questions I would recommend that you bone up on the various terms and, clauses and offsets regularly used in office leasing to help best achieve your clients goals.For example, when dealing with tenant improvements (item 7), the landlord might say "I wont pay for any TIs". in which case you could offer 50% rent or free rent for X number of months if the tenant  pays for 100% of TIs. 

We have a practice of "one lease, one payment" and ask our tenants to designate one representative to send us a single security deposit and single rent payment each month.  

Is the move to grab good rental deals and hold them until values really improve or will we start seeing high ARVs in these areas in the next year?

The good thing is that this HOA board is made up of 100% investors (since that's the owner make-up) and from my experience these type boards are amenable to constructive criticism, including governance improvements.