The food business, even vending is labor intensive, dealing with approved wholesale suppliers may be required for some products, like pre made salads and sandwiches.

 The world's largest suppliers of gypsum are Oman, Spain, and Thailand. 

It was 12 hours.If you don't do a lot of the prework as far ahead of time as possible, permitting, vendors, suppliers, ordering materials, you're likely to get delays easily in weeks.If you don't control your own crew then it's pretty hard to even find one, or get them to show up.

I am buying the lumber materials for 2 duplexes at a time and having it direct shipped so supplier does not handle.

We negotiate a price discount from our suppliers for being loyal customers . 

3 - How many contractors and suppliers have you dealt with based on the answer to Q#3?

Kitchen cabinets are from a local supplier.

I m an agent who works with New Western and I would like to offer you an explanation, first we are the ONLY reliable wholesale market supplier who will show you everything at front, we offer a package ,this property package which is btw free ,has ALL the information for you to make an informed decision, but we are not an education center provider, second we didn’t keep your money and disappeared we helped you to get a deal maybe not a good one for you , that’s why is always good to either be a realtor contractor hard money lender otherwise you will ALWAYS be spending extra money on those people, we deal with savvy buyers and few times will deal with first timers and the reason we don’t deal much with unexperienced is because first timers need time and they are quite slow and our houses are gone normally in a couple of days if not hours now we SELL A PROPERTY every 13 minutes if we are that bad ask the another thousands of investors who uses us some monthly and we ALWAYS recommend to buy with a general contractor opinion or due diligence is on our contract.Reading your story is just a sad victimization of a poor decision and again we never advertise for the best deals just a deal if you don’t want it let it go and look for another one next day or so ,what for you was terrible for an experienced person not at all , there is always exit strategies BRRR DSCR buy and hold etc  one thing for sure you never loose in real estate maybe you make less and it’s fine onto the next ! 

Anything you have to rehab right now, anything you need guys to show up and work on, should be a very big question mark in your portfolio right now.One of my buddies had a 10% hike on his loose lumber package, this was last Tuesday. when you wrote this last week I check lumber futures and I dont see a reason for the jump lumber futures are down. it sounds like a supplier maybe gouging. 

Waiters will get laid off, chefs, suppliers.