Not fabulous, a little sloppy at times and their systems haven't been to tight, but I haven't had time/energy to really shop around.

I have been struggling with contractors, deadlines, and increments to settled budgets.I am trying to get them to work with some sort of software that monitors their progress. 

If you're in a really tight market it's possible but in a tight market Short Sales sell fast to Owner Occupants.What's the ARV versus what the bank wants?

The market it tight here and I don't have a log if anything going in. 

We got it under contract, but the inspection determined we would have to replace a garage/basement wall and we had to extend the deadline to commit until this Friday to get some bids for repairs.

I suggested to wait until 2 pm, which is really bad because we have a 14-year-old International student arriving that day at 5 pm (so it would be tight). 

We got it under contract, but the inspection determined we would have to replace a garage/basement wall and we had to extend the deadline to commit until this Friday to get some bids for repairs.We have reached the seller's bottom dollar of $280k ($15k below listing).

You shouldn't do any deal without having those locked down to a very tight range.

Even if you sat tight in the current prop, your $100k of cash could get you a small leveraged portfolio of cash flow props in Birmingham and other markets in the South and Midwest.

Multi Families in Bloomfield and the surrounding areas are a hot commodity as such the inventory is really tight.