The negatives are that the Ardent line item is a non-active external condo fee for external maintenance which varies each month based on work done.

If someone sold you anything that is not needed (home ownership) at a price you can't afford then you should consider renting or scaling down the items you own until it is financially balanced and you can afford that item.

Then I do my own calculations taking into account the items already mentioned that can affect the reliability of these formulas.

If they object to items that they would like fixed or given a credit for and you do not come to an agreement by the Resolution Deadline (or whatever your terminology is for your contract), the contract terminates (in Colorado, the following day).Typically, a Buyer is set to perform a contract under the Liquidated Damages clause which means they sacrifice their Earnest Money IF they do not close yet everything else was fine.A Seller is typically under Specific Performance which means they have to close if all conditions are met or the Buyer can potentially pursue legal action.The general gist of it anyhow.

Not to much, they can buy gold or other reserve currency based items but that leaves a lot of Dollars.

This landlord thought he had a creative and easy way to get rid of his tenant's stuff. It kind of back fired.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49793971/ns/local_news-corpus_christi_tx/t/craigslist-catastrophe-leads-looti...

And I won't be able to leave any personal items in it.

Talk through the issues of who pays what, then get it in writing.But for now it comes down to the lease -- are these items covered in the lease (do you have a lease?).

I had provided a solid and glowing reference to the new landlord.Things were cordial until we were doing a pre-walkthrough of the damages, and I provided estimated costs (based on contractor quotes for work, and based on homedepot.com for items needing replacement).

Robert Taylor (not a bad name choice if I say so myself lol) I was planning to add around 20% for my budgeted costs, but I like your idea of just budgeting for more expensive items plus the 20% that way I'll be sure to have everything covered.