:sigh:I wish I had a better, more consistent way to pay him as I was used to the auto-payroll method so it took me a couple of months to work it out.

In my opinion, this is poor practice and most "SOLID" private market policies have kept their rates consistent for the past 5 years.

. :) thanks for your feed back.

Stick with being consistent.  

People consistently say how big it is because of the amount of land that jax covers, but in reality compared to other metros, the population is small.

The decedent's estate consists of creditors, secured and unsecured as well as equitable claimants such as heirs (or beneficiaries under a valid will, if any). 

If vendors regularly work with a builder and know that the builder is consistently shopping their price, they will provide consistently competitive pricing to the builder.It's not necessarily the best way to do business, but it happens a lot.That being said, the builder could be playing a pricing game; do you trust him? 

When I am broke, there is one place I go and have gone consistently.  

@Jessica DoolittleHi there, I do not have a list of the city and area demographics here but some markets within 2 hours of NYC would consist of Westchester, Rockland and Possibly Albany.

But there's never one consistent answer provided amongst local real estate investors in Pittsburgh.