If you have a bank/credit union that appears to offer a loan product to help you, then you can sometimes send them your underwriting/analysis of a property to review so they can provide their thoughts on it's "lendability."

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I feel "diversified" enough that if one of them stops producing income, for whatever reason, we still have enough income from the others that it wouldn't hurt.

I work as a lead product manager at Lumen technologies. 

I haven’t used grip strip but have had bad times with other adhesive flooring products.

I think your recourse is a timely termination of the contract based on the buyer's failure to produce the deposit.

But at the same time, I have realized when you trigger an address by filing something it usually sends up a flag to the local tax commissions or authorities for the address listed which will sometimes trigger more back and forth explanations where everyone is looking for their share of any income produced.  

I doubt any replacement builder would commit to timeframes as there's a lot of variables and several unexpected product shortages.

I am a long way from being exceptional at saying “no” and continue to add more “no’s” to my repertoire.The more you commit to, the less productive you are for each commitment, with few exceptions.

There are products specifically for rentals, but I feel like using this approach will work best for me in the long run as I grow because its generic and I can get any bookkeeper to work for me.