I also looked at landscaping blocks, and ultra deck timbers but they are too heavy for blocks and too expensive for ultra.Regular treated 2 bye 10's cost about 65 bucks a window, metal 200 bucks and same for plasticWhat would you do?

Treat all parties with respect bro.

They are notoriously inflexible about treating a purchasing business entity separately from the owner/manager of the business.

Personally, I live in Mableton and invest in those types of suburbs, and the past few years have treated us well also.Don't get hung up on trend lines -- all that matters is that there is still inefficiencies between the distressed and retail markets, which can happen independent of any trends.

But here in my neck of the woods, the rehab expenses are added to the cost of the project, which is treated as inventory.

Also, along these lines, a previous tax preparer recommended that I might treat each rental unit of the duplex as its own property, since each was placed into service at different times, and thereby (I assume) be represented as such on Schedule "E" in columns A and B respectively (ie, Property A= initially rented unit, and Property B=newly rented unit as of Aug 2011).

Actually, DE put a name on this type of entity, but it really is similar to setting up multiple LLC's run by one LLC and this is how the states that do not have a series LLC would treat each individual cell/business as a separate LLC owned by another LLC.

Many of these people never take action, they never get their business systems in place (after all wholesaling IS a business you need to treat it as such), and never begin marketing to motivated sellers, dont learn the contracts etc.

Any other offer that comes in after the executed offer is treated as a BACK UP offer.

During an episode I watched how badly he treated his contractor like trash.