If they fail to acknowledge your claim, then your contractor license board consumer department can help you out.

Cutting in ceilings and trim well is the next challenge, this is where amateurs fail.

They should be able to serve him with papers for increasing his rent and then when he fails to pay the rent in full, evict him.

A quality operator is worth its weight in gold.  

In short, in the context of real estate, the majority of your time has to be spent in real estate activities (usually full-time workers in other professions fail at this level of the test because convincing the IRS that you work two full-time jobs presents a problem) and the time spent must exceed 750 hours.  

Not interested personally.. but it is an option to trying to wholesale and failing miserably at that.

He said the system looked very good but being old cast iron he couldn't say if and when it'll fail.  

Morgan, I agree that as long as it doesn't look like you tried to match the floors and failed you should be good.

This Corp will get a fee for the management.That would be a way to convert some passive income to active income.As active income does not have the same tax advantages as passive income you need to carefully weight the benefits that you can gain from a Corp (Many more deductions available, retirement plan contribution) versus the additional cost and taxes.

GC is incompetent, has failed to get proper permits and has stalled on the balance of the work so seller just wants out.