You don't fully(if at all) trust the newb so you do double if not triple the work for the same pay off.Just giving some food for thought as the decisions are all yours to make at the end of the day.   

The tenants ended up having three cats and were willing to pay the extra money for each of them, so we settled at $700/mo!

I agreed to pay the extra $50.

Is it extra living space or mainly storage?

Most looking into Buy/Hold but not opposed to flipping to generate extra capital. 

Hell, I gave my electrician a hundred dollar bonus last month because he did some outstanding work and did some extra work that wasn't in the original scope. 

All reasons I’ll be delaying buying a home.I also like the idea of just skipping the starter home and buying a larger home when I need the extra space.

We have something else in common other than REI, that being food and hospitality, only problem is you work so hard for so little in return unless your a celebrity cook but hey that's why we're here right!

I paid extra for UPS ground shipping, but turns out good old snail mail would have gotten them here sooner and for less $$!  

You just gave the bank an extra 3%.