How do you keep and retain good tenants?

For this, since you seem certain that the tenant will pay and therefore take less time, you may want to ask to put down a 1K retainer (it seems to be the number these attorney think it will cost) and you pay an hourly rate, which you negotiate. 

Are lenders who are asking for a "retainer" or "due diligence" fee a real thing? 

Can you borrow from a bank or private lender to build a spec and retain all the profits yourself?

The podcasts are great and it seems like thats a good way for you to absorb/retain info.

They'll refund your half of deposit to you and retain her half and then she would be required to come up with the balance of her half for the full deposit..

I imagine bringing in fill/building a retaining wall could cost anywhere from 15 to 25k.

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Some the trash in the backyard has broke my fence and retaining wall, grass or trees grow over to my property, or just every floor from the roof has collasped to the basement.

To be honest, my lady wears the tool belt in the relationship and I'm just hired muscle, but I'm very confident in her vision, skills and execution, and I think there's very little that we wouldn't be able to tackle in terms of fixing up our first property.