Ultimately, all investments and monetary systems depend on confidence in the system.

I do keep a healthy reserve fund and have the money to replace it, it's more that they haven't made monetary sense to me. 

Also even though you did not "hire" them, a reduced rent in exchange for a service would be seen as an employer/employee relationship in a court since there is a defined monetary value.

Time is of course worth some monetary value, however I will make two points because this is something I think about almost daily.

Negligence is 4 parts, duty owed, duty breached, injury and monetary damages.

Continued failure to comply with this state law, will result in loss of pet privileges, monetary fines, and the involvement of animal control.

If it’s failed the seller generally offers a monetary concession for the buyer to fix it at some point.

Find it hard to believe or not people volunteer to do things that dont have a direct monetary effect on themselves, for the betterment of their industry, which pays bigger dividends than a few bucks here and now.  

Could there be a monetary value to him giving aways his "control"?

He is not seeking monetary damages other than a claim for attorneys fees which he is not entitled to given that we are a state that follows the American rule ( each side pays their own way ) .