I closed a multi unit multi address deal there couple weeks ago with hard money funding, I can't believe how crappy the deal went, title lady said she'd never closed anything with hard money before, blew my mind. 

In our experience, tree trimming costs vary wildly among contractors.

Two people are on the deed one lives here in Texas the other lady lives in Boston.

Just tell the ladies at the front table that I invited you. to your success.  

I'm sure people in both categories will talk about wild success going both routes, but my intuition was to the effect that it's much harder to find a 'deal' than it is to find someone who wants to list their house for top dollar on the MLS (while I certainly do not assume this is easy), but I only have so much time and money, trying to not only create a marketing budget but build systems around both of these businesses.

.), were slow and grudging to respond to maintenance requests, and one really memorable lady who used me as her personal ATM because she didn't want to get a job of her own.

Factor the cost of the money into the cost of doing business and if the numbers work, pay it and go get another.Just one lady's opinion

I feel like I'm trying to solve a problem without being given enough information to do anything but take a wild guess.

Think of blind lady justice holding her scale, one side is risk, one side is coc return.

We cut it down and killed off all the wild grass and weeds.