My mother sold her grandmother's big house on the park in Grand Rapids, MI for $18K in 1982.

Should a contractor receive 75% up front or should they be paid in smaller increments?

If the goal is growth at a rapid pace then you have to give aways as much of the work as possible.

We are considering front-loading a lease's worth of charge on filters at the beginning and having them delivered by Amazon via UPS, Postal service, or some other method, in 12 month increments.

Recently, with all the rapid changes in accounting rules, I rather let my CPA earn a few bucks, than to agonize over what I have to capitalize,  depreciate, and expense.

For every incremental $180k of the purchase price I recess the 2% by .0018 percentage points.

While I don’t think you can loose money long term, I do think that say 5-6 years from now this rapid appreciation will slow and there might be better cities to invest in, at that point, that will have better appreciation rates.

We expect to complete the roll-out by Q2 2017 and are projecting $40,000 - 50,000 annually in incremental operating income.In our last update, we announced our plan to upgrade half of our units to "Premium Units" with the goal of boosting rents by 30% and attracting higher quality tenants.

We live in Grand Rapids and are having difficulty finding properties that fit our requirements price wise so we started thinking about branching out to Big Rapids or Kalamazoo.

We have developed our business plan and are rapidly approaching the point of making offers.