Do you know what stage cancer she has?

A beautifully maintained, well staged, occupied home will generally show better and sell for more than a vacant one. 

I’m still in the beginning stages so I’m trying to educate myself as much as possible.

Staged it myself.

That's utter stupidity, great for an agent, but stupidity for the buyer who, considering his job, will likely give up an entire years worth of savings just to cover this.

At this time @Dean St hillaire is still in the stage of tracking down the owner and wants to give the owner ample time to respond to calls etcetera. 

.$200k each lot = $400k$550-650 each home build = $1.1-1.3m home totalTotal acquisition and build = 1.5-1.7mHard money costs ~ $200k roughlyRealtor, staging, closing, misc fees, costs, insurance, taxes = $100k estimatedTarget ARV = $1.1-1.3m eachNeighboring houses built in early 2000's selling for mid $900's & some over $1m.

SHE knows you the BEST5) If i have read the set up of your questions ... your venture is based on that what you DAD created NOT what YOU have created.. to add to #4 above 6) She is absolutely correct that $200-$400/month/property is NOTHING ... it about scale 7) To replace or earn or come to same stage at hers (10K ish) ... you need to have around 40-50 properties aka 4mil-6 mil of portfolio value .... aka 3ish mil of loan ... again assuming you guys have been married for a while ..

I typically stage my homes and add some sort of feature to entice buyers over the competition.

The bounced check was especially disconcerting and I’m worried that when the current tenants lease is up in June that the whole song and dance will start over from the beginning while he continues to generate monthly cashflow instead of putting the house on the market - even more so since he has been utterly unreliable in remitting my half of the rent.