Well, he emailed me the electronic doc and I went in to sign, when I realized that the contract locks me up until Jan 2016 (he filled that date in, not sure how he chose that) for exclusive rights for him to be my buyer's agent in all transactions for "single family homes / investment properties."  

Combine this increase in computing with advances in 3D printing (technology we use routinely in my day job) and other manufacturing technologies, and the idea of a computer program that writes another program and builds a device to put it into is not too far-fetched.

We're getting carpet and vinyl straight from the manufacturer, and paying about a third to a quarter of retail pricing, so I don't know what the retail prices would equate to and can't really link to retail comparables.There aren't a ton of advantages to real estate where I live, but that's certainly one of the them!

Is it possible that the first contractor is offering a year labor warenty, and the second is simply refering to the manufacturer warrenty on the shingles?

Or, create some sort of product that can be manufactured by someone, distributed by someone else, taken by phone, mail, and web orders.

While certainly there may be several different compounds from various manufacturers, the one my guy uses completely dissipates during the airing out process.

Amazing how fast a tenant will get paid up (including late fees) if they face eviction. we use electronic locks on units being remodeled.  

In the manufacturing world, there is an adage - "Speed, Quality, Cost:  Pick 2"If the seller's concerns are a high speed bid, as they say, they can only choose to offer a high quality property, or waiting for a higher cost bid.From the sounds of it, they have a low quality property.  

These are tiles that may not be quite square but the tile manufacturer (the same company that makes the fancy "ones") will unload in bulk at a huge discount.  

About 2-3 years ago I owned a 1984 Double Wide manufactured home and it was on land.