Again, congrats and wishing you much success in your future endeavors!! 

The learning experience slows me a bit and sometimes I wish I had a mentor for all my millions of questions.

I'm not saying I wish i hadn't tested, but dang.....

That added scope pricing needs to be separated from the base scope of work.I wish I had a clean, easy answer for you, but this sounds like a bit of a mess.My contracting experience is commercial, and we have a very detailed scope of work which leaves little to interpretation.  

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Since in you're interested in mobile homes & multi-family, these podcasts will be of particular interest to you:http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2015/03/26...http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2014/06/19...And this blog post as well:http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2015/06/02...I'm an active investor & agent in the area, so feel free to reach out anytime.I wish you all the best Denise!

I wish you the best of luck.

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Other than locally available data, we like to get absentee owner lists from Listsource (I show you how in this video) and we use postcards rather than letters as we can hit almost 2x the people with postcards.YellowLetters.com has some super nice postcards that will cost less than your cost for letters and will save you time as well.Hope that helps - best wishes!