If you look at the US, it has long been an issue for American manufacturers in staying competitive on the world stage when the Dollar is strong, and a constant thorn that the Chinese (allegedly) keep the Yuan artificially low.

That way I can be on-site full time to monitor/project manage the rehab. 4) Over the next few weeks, build my initial team and then launch the Point Loma rehab, with a couple of initial stage gate steps to rerun the numbers as the architect's plans and GC SOWs are developed/refined.

I've never heard the term "hand money" being used in an actual written contract, however, but as long as the contract explicitly states the role the "hand money" plays in your arrangement (for example: whether or not the $10k count towards your equity when you exercise your option to purchase the property) then everything should be fine. 

I have a job in noda that was a tear down thy was sold at drywall stage and is closing Friday that j could take you thru..

Is the house staged?

I'll just have to battle through the beginning stages, and rely on the income from my current employment to get me rolling.

Hi @Dick Rosen,  we also were using QuickBooks and are just in the implementation stage with PW and very unhappy with custom service and are considering moving to Appfolio before investing more time and energy. 

If they believe that they need to get more on the sale, then explain what has to be done to achieve that (ie market prep, repairs, showings, staging, etc) and especially that there will be more time involved in order to get the higher price. 

We are still in the initial stage of building a portfolio.

We have been paying the architect step by step as we have gone through the various stages, up to SD and construction drawings which are done.