I have worked my entire career in construction and last 2 years performing entitlements, permitting, and construction for industrial developments along the Wasatch.

You can determine what a decent salary would be for someone in your market and then reverse-engineer to see if what you're paying as a salary, plus the projected performance commission, will get you there.

While it is nice of her to pay the rent for her adult son, she shouldn't be paying rent for two places as it is clearly stretching her budget.

Do you have a rent roll for at least the last 2 years, so you can see how it has performing?

Instead of buying trips or hotels for ordinary point values, learn how to increase the value of your points and stretch your dollar farther.It's an inexpensive e-book.

If a seller listed a home for $100,000 but was willng to sell for $94,000 as that was likely the FMV, it would be the same to him if he accepted $100,000 with a 6% seller credit or $94,000.I looked at the zip codes of lower priced homes in Memphis, Cleveland and Indianapolis and they appeared to perform betterMemphis38105 - Prices were $35,700 in 2016 and now $116,000(220%)38106 - Prices were $21,600 in 2016 and now $60,900(180%)Cleveland44108 - Prices were $34,000 in 2016 and now $59,800(74%)44104 - Prices were $36,300 in 2016 and now $60,400(66%)Indianapolis46201 - Prices were $42,900 in 2016 and now $149,000(247%)46222 - Prices were $39,000 in 2016 and now $127,000(225%)I should mention that I don't invest in Memphis, Cleveland or Indianapolis.

AND have provided the 150 hrs of material participation and not have had any other person perform longer work hours than you.

As the legally required small print in the offering of financial products reads: "Past performance is no guarantee of future performance".

If the city ever wants to add sidewalks or run utilities underground, those homeowners will be out of luck.PS: I have never seen a juridisction pay to remove items in an easement or compensated owners for performing work in an easement.

The mortgage payment is already high and my life circumstances have changed, making the payment even more of a stretch (not impossible, but definitely above the recommended percentage of take home pay).I am considering selling the first property next year (which has about $200K in equity) to do a mortgage recast on the primary and get my payment to something more reasonable.