As you said in you post, I have learned that Maverick does not due sufficient due diligence on their providers, nor are they nearly client centric enough for my taste.

On the flip side, if you have expensive tastes you could easily blow the budget on each item.Your builder may legitimately not yet know the price of the door you picked.  

I would love to be able to furnish/decorate a whole and buy it all from amazon(or something similar) and it be designed tastefully and turned around quickly. 

Don't remodel the house with your taste and desires in mind.

That way I can establish some cash flow and get a taste for being a landlord. 

After seeing thousands of fraudulent chargebacks be favored with the buyer, I think the whole thing just left a bad taste in my mouth with CC's..........I can also get into the stories of thieves literally fishing rent drop boxes , washing money orders all while getting caught on camera but will save that for another day........ 

Dave Del Dotto got seriously rich and bought wineries in the Napa Valley one of them was 500 feet from my personal house I used to take friends in there end of the day for a tasting and he would regale us with his experiences.No question the FTC has come down hard on all the seminar guys Not sure who is still operating but I know some are as there are still turnkey operators who get funneled leads from these companies..  

It all depends on what your tastes are and what you enjoy.

To give a taste of the building style: indoor lighting from reflected sunlight.

At least the law ends up supporting the main point of people being able to choose their roommates, and hopefully if someone ever does go to court for advertising their taste, they won't be punished harshly lol.