If this was truly part of her agreement and the current owner will not do the work, then you can choose to do it yourself and eat the cost, or you can reduce your offer.

I am curious to know how others have built out their teams and if you usually try to consolidate this (finding all other Team members through a central connection) or look to diversify so as not to have all your eggs in one basket (in the event something goes sour with the central connection)?

I did notice how much the taxes eat up the profits!

There was a colony of them in the physical mattress with eggs.

A house a year with a conventional loan works with housing in my area, but if not rented then I would be eating into that $40k.

It will likely continue to rise over time, eating away at my profits.

Eating trim is probably the worst part - though some are not house trained well either.

So, after 10 minutes of preheating, the stove wouldn't be 425/450 or whatever she was setting it to, because it wasn't preheated enough.Would you charge the tenant the repairman's bill for his base visit cost, or should we eat the cost because we chose to not go over and test what she was claiming, before we called in a repairman?

Mary has a less emotional (or non-spiteful) manner in how she espouses for the benefits of paying higher taxes.Let's not 'eat the rich'.

Meaning, with the amount of capital that we've been able to save, about $100K, we like to use that to pay for rehab, sell the house, and get it all back plus our profit so that we can "turn the crank again" on the next property and keep growing that nest egg.