For example, there may be shoring costs (including whole house support), excavation costs (machine or hand digging?)

Setting up your team to be a well-oiled machine AND finding deal flow is harder than finding money today.

Appliances such as washing machines and dryers will generally increase the rental price of the unit.

I just tried Deal Machine (trial week).

A contractor with a machine and dump truck can have two laborers do that job in probably a half day if youre not far from the quarry.

If you cancel contact, loose the $1K earnest, but the bank refunds $$$ it's nearly a wash. 

I think the STR market will be tricky for the next couple years as the rookies and wanna-be's wash out because they bought at the peak and in bad areas.

(The conversations she is referring to is two people talking normally-not loudly- in a kitchen, getting a late evening snack or washing dishes and cleaning up, —we weren’t having social gatherings in our kitchen or anything like that) When she has friends over I can clearly hear them talking and laughing in her house but it doesn’t bother us at all, we expect that we would hear it being that close by, but she is apparently bothered by hearing us.

Considering the potential income I lost due to the timing and cost savings I got in return, I just consider it a wash. 

The problem is the chemicals in the pool, react with the sealant, and instead of having a really nice rock layout where you see color running through the veins in the rock kind of thing, you see a washed out surface because the chemicals from the pool really interact with the sealant.