Depending on how much work you need, I recommend finding a local developer who you can work with long term and will think long term when rolling out features without creating unnecessary work for you in the future.

Have more cash.Save more money each month.Look at budget and cut unnecessary spending. 

Final thought: If you are still planning to leave the military in 20 months and don't yet have a solid plan to transition to your next source of income I would recommend avoiding all unnecessary purchases.

A judge may see otherwise and punish the landlord for imposing draconian terms.

Lots of great meetups can be found at meetup.com and mines is in my signature link below.http://www.dailynews.com/government-and-politics/2...Tom and others please bring up the New AB 1506 bill to dramtically increase rent control in cities.Amid California’s housing crisis, several state lawmakers want to give cities the right to dramatically increase rent control , including imposing and expand the kind of strict limits that exist in SF, LA Santa Monica and West Hollywood but have been barred since the 1990s.

Many other cities have tried to impose the responsibility of utility bills on landlords, Brockville comes to mind, and the ordinance was voted down.

The other thing you can do is impose a penalty for not notifying you of the necessary repair.

It's just an unnecessary barrier to taking action at this point.

If you don't like the rules a tenants  best option is to leave.If she wants protection from lawsuits all she needs is adequate insurance, A LLC or trust does not provide any greater protection and is a unnecessary expense.

Housing Authority of the City of Bayonne (373 NJ Super. 302, 861 A.2d 194 (2004)), the court held that a landlord could not impose a 20–pound limit that applied to pets in a public housing authority to prohibit a tenant from keeping a dog that provided emotional support but that happened to weigh more.