My wife and I decided we had enough of the winters in NYC and just moved to Charlotte a few weeks ago to enjoy a new city and so I could more directly focus on growing my operations / portfolio here.  

I think Excel is great for me as I am operating at a tighter margin, at the moment.  

The rules appear very similar to the ones we operate under in the city of Austin, but this would affect all large cities in the state. 

It helps me compare apples to apples given my personal operating assumptions.  

Another possibility might be adding additional sources of income - renting out the common space/room in the office if you have one, to the tenants for birthday parties etc, vending machines, coin operated laundry, pet fees, pet non refundable pet deposits.  

In 1982 Gary started his own company, GA Enterprises.

There is also a dual perspective from actually owning the property as an operator versus a transaction broker only. 

So instead of coming here to ask how you should phrase your rejection letter designed to keep their money why not just return it.You wouldn't like it if it were done to you and you wouldn't like it if it were done to your child.I'm just curious, Ihe... do you actually own or operate any type of business?  

Form 3 (or more) LLC’s to avoid having all assets being subject to getting sued. 1 – An LLC as the buy and hold holding company, 2 – An LLC for flips, 3 – An LLC as the operating company (heads into contracts, collects rents, etc.).

And I'll continue doing data entry so I have some sort of connection to the day-to-day operations.  :-)