We locked all exterior hose bibs.

If you have not done so, use a garden hose to spray out the condenser coils/fins.

Don't hose me here; I know nothing about mutual funds aside from the tax loss/gain harvesting I do from time to time. 

The basement was often hand dug as they did not have hydraulic excavators at the time, is typically not as deep and have thick brick walls, early block walls, sometimes also field stone/concrete. 

If you're ready to drink through a fire hose, then great!

Then I found posts of other people who were getting hosed during the period he was telling me he was going to pay me. 

I'm not saying your contractor doesn't do fantastic work, but mistakes happen, and considering he will have nails, boots, hoses, nail guns, compressors, etc. down there, it is only a matter of time before one of those nails ends up under his boot and scrapes the laminate, or the compressor slides and leaves a nice big gash in your new floors. 

Just as soon as he did, the con man and his confederate took their hose and water-filled bladder away to sell land to the next person they had targeted.Until the day he died, you could not say "land in Loutraki" in my father's house.

Also, sometimes the low-flow part is implemented by a small nozzle/restrictor that goes into the back of the shower head as a separate piece; a few tenants might be clever enough to unscrew the shower head, take that part out, and screw the head back on.If they don't already have these, you might "sell" this as an upgrade by installing the kind that have a flexible hose (so you can hold the shower head in your hand) and a bar that the shower head can be hung on at different heights. 

It also increases the likelihood of a hose being hooked up wrong and a water leak.