You want to elongate that area instead of making it feel squashed.

In pure capitalism, it is inevitable that randomly, one competitor in an industry eventually gets so big such that they can acquire, squash, and price out any future would be competition.

Even in Richardson ISD, there are 3 particular Elementary school feeder areas that squash the rest of the district. 

Then, find a lawyer and squash it fast.The only problem with trying to capitalize on his higher price (someone calls in on the 110K ad and you try to sell it at 110k) is that it's tough to find out where people saw your ad and, after you've started negotiations, if they see "your" ad listed for 10k less, it's another bag of worms...

That usually takes more than minimum wage, and usually they can get the job done for the same anyways especially when you do have more time managing or you have to pay a manager more for having to spend more time managing a job that would take less of their time with a decent contractor.IF your worried about getting gouged do a cost plus fixed fee contract (best option but be careful with laws on this)  or a time and material contract with a max price.And seriously anyone that tries to say they don't allow change orders is rediculous, not legal at all, even if its in the contract it would get squashed in court. 

IANALB wouldn't that be the trump card to squash a lawsuit from an ambulance-chasing attorney? 

You might buy the property and squash the old agreement by yourself as you own both properties.

I think setting up a strict budget will help squash those visions of grandeur but it will be a work in progress.

Even though the national average is supposedly 40-45% OER, our real estate taxes squash any chances of that (except maybe on low-end multifamilies).

The farmers lobby squashed efforts to deal with it.See: Congress, global warming and cow flatulence?