A recommendation is just that, a recommendation for convenience or cost effectiveness.

Because the Shingles will soon be reaching the end of their effective useful life of 20 years.

In the last few years I've averaged 3 offers a year, bought them all with cash and closed as promised.All were carefully chosen for the rehab to rent strategy that I'm doing.I absolutely refuse  to waste my, or anyone else valuable time chasing all over creation looking for a short term gain.I'm old, slow and methodical in my pursuit and fully expect to enjoy the fruits of this attitude for a long time.

If you can't effectively communicate your parameters it will be hard for those service providers to truly be a resource and partner for you.

Just relying solely on bank statements isn't as effective as a receipt because a bank statement just tells you how much you spent at a location.

It is much more effective (but also more expensive). 

Interesting article recently published by city observatory (cityobservatory.org, "getting to critical mass in Detroit") suggesting that successful development in Detroit needs to achieve critical mass in a few locations because there are positive spillover effects for surrounding neighbourhoods.

Therefore, the effects of failure are much more permanent.So!

When you say that you can only occupy it 26 weeks/year, its effectively a timeshare right?

Having an effective date on B to C that is before the A to B closing concerns me.I also read that people write a contingency in their B to C contract that specifies that A to B must close.