Finding a competent attorney to work with is a matter of interviewing several and picking one.

Re-read your contracts, document your correspondence (and attempts) with your builder and demand documentation to match up any payments/draws with what's actually been competed on your build.

Keep in mind a few things - many major markets currently have a glut of multifamily projects so you may be competing with large apartment complexes with amenities offering incentives in a competitive market. 

Of course, if you are doing a lot of buying and selling, it is always good to know who the players are because there are some that do top quality work and others that do not.

My biggest recommendation is to look on social media and see who the “big” players are for investor focused teams in your area.

But I won’t do to DFW because I don’t know the market and the players like people who have invested 10 years there.

Why would you want to compete with that?

The only place I see more cheating is in the recruiting of SEC football players (SEC fan here).

I think one thing people need to understand is in the US the ten-year treasury is competing against the mortgage-backed securities and while the ten-year is impacted by interest rates, its not the only factor and amount of spending we do also impacts it.they auctioned off 30-year today and it went really bad as no one wants our long-term debt and it sold for 4.3%10-year notes recently traded for 3.96% but again very weak demand - which I believe means yield prices may continue to move up, which means interest rates are not going down dramatically anytime soon - so that fed 25 or 50bps drop is not going to have your mortgage lender dropping rates suddenly the next day...Now the spread between the 10 yr and 30yr mortgages historically is closer to 1.75 but recently has been between 2-3% due to yield curve.

It might not go away, but probably won't be able to compete with friends, sports, girls, etc.