You might want to agree to appoint a neutral to arbitrate any dispute.Also, if you think that you might want to own your piece through an individual LLC or trust someday, make sure that the language of your LLC agreement permits a transfer to a related entity whenever you want to do so.

Also, the state of formation is likely where internal disputes would be brought among LLC members, so if you and a partner live in CA, you probably want to arbitrate in CA if the two of you had a disagreement.

@Kevin Boyd So I would agree  with you that if you can't get anywhere then arbitration is what you need to do.

Health Care Arbitration Act 6.

The respective insurance company on each claim is bound to find out of the other policy's existence and could (more than likely would) attempt to invoke the "excess" clause of it's own contract, potentially leaving the owner waiting for courts/arbitration to settle...

. § 14-11-702, which reads as follws: (b) Without excluding other activities which may not constitute transacting business in this state, a foreign limited liability company shall not be considered to be transacting business in this state, for the purpose of qualification under this chapter, solely by reason of carrying on in this state any one or more of the following activities: (1) Maintaining or defending any action or administrative or arbitration proceeding or effecting the settlement thereof or the settlement of claims or disputes; (2) Holding meetings of its managers, members, or other owners or carrying on other activities concerning its internal affairs; (3) Maintaining bank accounts, share accounts in savings and loan associations, custodial or agency arrangements with a bank or trust company, or stock or bond brokerage accounts; (4) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of membership or other ownership interests in it or appointing and maintaining trustees or depositaries with relation to such interests; (5) Effecting sales through independent contractors; (6) Soliciting or procuring orders, whether by mail or through employees or agents or otherwise, where such orders require acceptance outside this state before becoming binding contracts and where such contracts do not involve any local performance other than delivery and installation; (7) Making loans or creating or acquiring evidences of debt, mortgages, or liens on real or personal property or recording the same; (8) Securing or collecting debts or enforcing any rights in property securing the same; (9) Owning, without more, real or personal property; (10) Conducting an isolated transaction not in the course of a number of repeated transactions of a like nature; (11) Effecting transactions in interstate or foreign commerce; (12) Serving as trustee, executor, administrator, or guardian, or in like fiduciary capacity, where permitted so to serve by the laws of this state; or (13) Owning directly or indirectly an interest in or controlling directly or indirectly another person organized under the laws of or transacting business within this state.Good luck!

Sent an email to CNN's tips line to see if they can at least mention this at some point - the fact that you waive your right to sue is not at all intuitive for the average consumer trying to see if their private information was stolen (in the case of most on this forum the answer will be yes).Relevant section pulled out:PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE SECTION CAREFULLY BECAUSE IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS BY REQUIRING ARBITRATION OF DISPUTES (EXCEPT AS SET FORTH BELOW) AND A WAIVER OF THE ABILITY TO BRING OR PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION, CLASS ARBITRATION, OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. 

@Steven Wilging Your situation is very easy, you can blue tape all the poor work, give the contractor a chance to finish it (in CA, this is a requirement - to extend and exhaust all possibilities before arbitration).

Does your contract have arbitration?

A side note is that my day job as an engineering consultant for arbitration/litigation disputes puts my legal risk tolerance higher than most, but I'm trying to avoid litigation unless it makes sense.