The supplier pays me a commission % for the dollar amount of goods I sell to restaurants. 

Why would you spend thousands of dollars and lose months and months of profit to do that?

For instance, should I base it on a dollar amount per hour I work on the project, either as a PM or as a guy who actually puts on the tool belt?  

WE hit it off and shortly there after we are approved for a 3 mil dollar LOC for new builds and went on to do about 8 projects together plus 5 in FLA. 

Also, as Jason Hartman says, inflation helps you pay off fixed rate debt as you pay it back with "worth-less"dollars over time--basically benefiting from a non-inflation adjusted, original purchase price in the distant past.To Your Success!

Is it urgent I have to replace that retention wall which may cost thousands of dollars or can wait until that retention wall collapses completely?

They apply, but you are just subject to gift tax at that point, which does not actually result in a tax bill for you, but a reduction in your total giftable allowance which is ~13M dollars. 

If I had 100 dollars for every time I have been asked to fix something someone messed up I could build a duplex in Austin. 

However overall international tourism went down more than 50% because of the strong dollar and weaker Yen also, a lot more people from the US going to Mexico/Europe because of the affordability.

(OR in another view point, real estate values stayed the same, and the dollar keeps losing value).