Love any and all responses! 

Who is responsible for cleaning the construction site and keeping public walk ways free and clear of construction debris since you are in CA without the ability to monitor the site?

We use DealCheck to underwire and QuickBooks Online for everything related to accounting and numbers.

It's possible the engineer is agreeing to take on the ENTIRE development process and manage the entire development of the project but that would need to be clearly defined in the roles and responsibilities of the development partnership. 

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Hi @Stuart Udis, thank you very much for your response.

Thanks to AHP Servicing for their prompt response.

Join local meetups or online groups (here on BiggerPockets, Meetup.com, other other local REIA are the good ones).

The tenant is responsible for the animals and what they bring in, not you.