I just wanted to share one of my favorite quotes by Brandon Turner: “So often people think the key to success is superb intelligence, unnatural luck, excessive time to devote to big tasks, or knowing the right people at the right time.

Given the slope of the lot and the fact that we are putting in some good foundation drainage, we don't think there will be any moisture issues with the crawl and don't plan to put in a sump pump.

I'm not going to allow you to exclude any other agent from bringing me a deal.I'm absolutely happy to pay you a commission for the deals YOU find and subsequently negotiate for me.I absolutely think the 60 day notice & one year auto-renew is excessive.

To me, I can understand paying the state tax in the state where I have the rental property, but paying a CA state tax's seems excessive.

While the rent was low, the building was the definition of deferred maintenance which I would soon discover in a utility bill from Georgia Power in excess of my monthly rent.

DISPOSITION OF EXCESS PROCEEDS. subsection (i):"(i) A fee charged by an attorney to obtain excess proceeds for an owner may not be greater than 25 percent of the amount obtained or $1,000, whichever is less.

@Andy Pillinger, there actually is a way to use a 1031 to deal with that excess gain above your 250K primary residence exclusion.  

So, in review, take excess funds, place them in a brokerage account with aggressive margin rates, place cash in secured assets, borrow against said assets, and expand my real estate holdings essentially for free. 

Avoid excessive calling to the same call recipient.

@Justin Kovach 5 million does seem rather excessive.