This ends up costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars over a full market cycle. 

None of my money involved except for 200 dollars for postcardsHow did you find this deal and how did you negotiate it?

If your doors have deadbolts and knobs, buy passage knobs (no keys) that don't, save a few dollars and minimize lockouts.

So bottomline for me, I love buying but if the military is the principle game in town there might be stronger/safer markets to put your dollars to use. 

And the Fed is "printing more Dollars" which is one way we get Inflation at the "current rate" of 5.5%.

You may go years without spending a dime, then you get hit with thousands of dollars in expenses.

I'm moving from Victoria BC where the average house is above a million dollars and rents in BC are a record high in Canada and going to Cornwall Ontario to take care of my mother with an idea to invest in some multi-family properties where my wife and I would dabble a bit in real estate.

He spent thousands of dollars and it took him about six-weeks to get it cleaned up.

Having a website with a we buy houses landing page and SEO the heck out of it will be yet another option as is driving for dollars. 

And they were trying to charge top dollars.