I've never heard of a GC removing the cover of an electrical panel to investigate the circuit branches, which could help diagnose (without paying for a much more expensive electrician) where the problem lies in that "Broken Light Switch".

What it boils down to is you can change nothing and every thing is extremely expensive.You need to thoroughly investigate the regulations and the costs to do it historic as opposed to modern reno.

Have you investigated the guru?

Harbor Funding Group is being investigated for fraud....beware!!!!!!

I am also investigating that market but I am very new to investing.

You all need to talk to a good financial planning lawyer both to set up the trust and investigate gift taxes and ways around them.

Bear down and investigate until you are confident you know what you are doing.  

We investigated the idea of an LLC early on but decided on an umbrella insurance policy for our rentals to begin with.

Some suggestions based on our experience: Step 1: Focus on picking, then investigating 3-5 markets (it is really difficult to go deep enough on more than that and you'll likely just be in analysis paralysis).

You have to do investigating of your own.