Heating water is probably the 2nd largest electrical load next to AC so if you can cut it off for a few days during a slow rental period it will save on your electric bill.

I would take it slow, learn your market and don’t lose your money.

I always believed in the story of the hare and the tortoise, where slow and steady wins the race.

Often for commercial scale projects they are salaried and the companies that hire them are bidding projects.Unless your GC can articulate very, very specifically what and how he / she is providing value, and you can have contractual protection to that effect, you're going to be on the receiving end of a bad deal there.Here's some thought experiments:What if your GC is slow? 

I'd suggest slowing down, and forcing yourself to communicate a bit more concisely. 

As we're coming into fall soon and the buying market tends to slow down as well as people moving for a rental, what do you think is a better option due to the time of year we're in?

Now you are going back and forth and the process gets slowed up.   

(One big reason why I am interested, seems to have kept it up well)My agent and I have had intermittent communication with his agent and seems to be showing his own frustration with the buyer because he is so slow to make any decision.

We just learned a valuable lesson about being slow and lost our first true deal. 

The main reason I do not participate today is my local plan administration is slow, taking 2-3 weeks to schedule the initial inspection, then if something--even a very minor problem--causes the unit to fail it takes them a week to re-inspect.