This is the political nature of things.

I am an accumulator by nature so leaving so much money behind will be very difficult.

Bring in 1+ people who specilalize in mold remediation BEFORE you make a final committment to building - you should be able to get an estimate and an idea of the mild/serious nature of it.

As far as penalty clauses, I wouldnt work with anyone threatening me right from the start, jobs have unforseen issues, nobody knows whats behind the walls or what other scab work is hiding waiting for us to find it, just the nature of the beast.

It also takes out the subjective nature of the sort.

Well May was my first month home in almost 3 years, so naturally I took a 10 day vacation out of state.

To make this legal give them a gift card for a couple hundred bucks to a beautiful restaurant, or something of this nature.

There was a recent thread where people were discussing the risk natural disaster risk involved in having all your properties in one city or regional area.

Given how subjective the term 'deal' can be, by nature, the average length of finding 'deals' is also going to be very subjective.Not to state the obvious, but a 'deal' to a wholesaler is going to need to be different than a 'deal' to a flipper.

So naturally I have to learn the real estate market all over again, but that is fun.