Buy better paint and DONT run your roller dry, squeezing every drop of paint out of it by pushing harder is the major cause for the end lines.

If she has to contribute to the interest payments or property, her reserves will diminish further causing problems with future financing.  

Stick to figuring out motivation on the phone, cause at the end of the day, all you need is a motivated seller :)

Just cause homes are cheap in the big Red Machine town.  

However if the contractor did cause the neighbors spike in usage/bill, it will be passed along to the owner who hired him, and he was working for. 

I have heard the chatter all the way up to Southern Ocean County about the job losses caused by the 2 casinos closing in a couple days in Atlantic City NJ and maybe another one in a couple months as my friends whom are B & H ers (and bought to high) have tenants that rely on the casino industry and they were just notified by there tenants they may be forced to leave.

It is important to get these recorded and they MUST be recorded in order or it will cause real problems if you need to foreclose for some reason. 

I can only say thank you for illustrating the kind of thinking that could potentially cause selling agents to not give me a fair shake when they present my offers to their clients.What would you suggest I do? 

or does this cause any problems for the investment group?

Sure seems like a great way to cause a contentious relationship with your tenants.