It depends a lot on how high between your peaks and valleys if is more than say 1/2", most leveling materials are not design to fill in that much.

Other building materials prices have gone up as well. 

Conventional rates are FICO driven where the higher the FICO credit scores the lower the rate and mortgage insurance required. 

Yeah, if "luck" means all the money I socked away when I was working, not taking fancy vacations or buying nice stuff, buying dumps, spending all of my nights and weekends hauling trash and fixing stuff, spending all of my available disposable income paying contractors or buying materials, then working like hell to get decent renters.

Unless the landlord is really cheap and willing to sacrifice vacancy time for cheaper labor/materials cost, then a professional PM should be hiring professional crews to do the work...people where that task is their main job....not some side job that they can do when they get a chance...hell, I can do thatSo....you pay for vacancy time....or you pay for a more professional crew to do it faster...your choice.I'd be shopping for a new PM...... it may be even more important to find a new one BEFORE you go out of country since once you aren't around the current one may get even worse and then you will be trying to deal with issues or find a new one while you are gone.

Value is driven by rental income, easy to find properties with rent below market (hobby landlords) and have much better cash flow and security due to having multiple tenants under one roof.

I like vinyl planks for the floors because they’re durable (if you use good material) and waterproof.

I'd love to stay in touch and maybe we can even recommend materials to each other that we find useful while educating ourselves.

The husband is a “handy-man” and would like to do the repairs himself and for me to reimburse him for the materials.

The inventory dropped to 0.6 month now back to 1.9 months.South Bay is driven by high tech higher income long term job prospect.