But thanks for the advice, I'm sure this has helped me avoid a lot of heart ache and heach aches!

I just got back from Edmonton and there's a lot of pain, but I'd wait 6 months to see what happens to oil prices.

it won't help you with this situation, but it may prevent future pain...SOW (Scope of Work) itemizing precisely what work is to be done, the finishes and/or exact material to be used, who has authority to decide on any undeclared materials or finishes (you or contractor).

No pain...no gain.

The implication being they can give notice if they are dissatisfied living there and/or we can give notice if they are a pain in the butt. 

We had spent over half a million dollars trying to find something to help my youngest son with an excruciatiningly painful neurological illness, so we were broke.We went through a lawyer and received 2 loans.

(Associations are a pain to deal with), but didn't make make huge money on any of them being the neighborhoods already were fairly nice when I bought them.I am looking to put down 30-40k in a neighborhood that could possibly gentrify with in the next 5 years.

Are all of your team willing to move to an e-sign platfor... being 1/2 paper and 1/ e-sign is painful...

Any pain points or pre-work worth mentioning to lessen the pain?

(I used to not have a time frame but found I was getting  a lot of recent purchases and no pain yet.