I told my husband it's going to be blood in the streets soon.

Usually, "family" is considered the first tier, mother, father, sister, brother, daughter, son, your spouse, grandparents, all being in a direct linage, blood or marriage, your great uncle by marriage isn't in this group. 

I think what's missed so often about how most start in REI and build, is there most often a LOT of blood sweat and tears.

I predict this will end in a financial blood bath. 

The insurance company was pretty reasonable to work things out with even though it did not start out that way, and they did have my blood pressure up considerably!

That is not constructive, makes for bad blood and the last thing you need is a $5,000 eviction.Your tenants have not responded, because they don't know how.

I put my own sweat and blood into making the interior and exterior beautiful!

Risk factors like high blood pressure, cholesterol, etc, can be silent killers. 

Unless you are out $25,000 - $50,000, there is no spread in the time it would take for an attorney to try to get blood from a stone, a broke stone.You should be speaking with the realtor who recommended the contractor as it was their recommendation that put you in this situation.

And I mean like reading/following basic prompts.Seriously… WTFIt still mesmerizes me to this day how many people are just plain ignorant when it comes to doing due diligence.I mean guys, we are talking about someones life savings here.Money that took years of blood, sweat and tears to earn/save.Get serious and do you research.You need to know what you want.You need to have confidence in your decision making.If you don’t know what you want, don’t expect someone else to tell you what you should want.