@Hunter Harms If you are working with an Architect that is only an Architectural firm then yes it would be on you to hire the contractor.

If you have contingency in your offer to end the lease and seller doesn't want to do it, you can get out of the deal with no harm. 

@Marcin Godlewski, moral: only cash out the amount that does NOT harm your DTI.ie.

@Thomas Robb, yes, for appropriate reasons, such as maintenance, inspections, to show the property, to check on abandonment after posting, or if an emergency is happening that harms the property or lives. 

Seems to be the consensus around my workplace...

I hate calling some of these companies randomly due to how they inflate their prices anytime someone mentions the "M" word, regardless if it is harmful mold or not. 

Jonathan.If you had the means to get into commercial, and you have the means to do a bad deal in commercial without harming your family or yourself.

However, if given the choice of being where they are now or where they could be, I believe they would promptly accept it and then they would defend why it is ok to be at that level of success now.I think comparing ourselves to others is not helpful but rather harmful.  

If they don't look good in a few years, I lost $10 and will buy black ones. no harm done.I also find price ranges to be a bell curve. the cheapest is probably overpriced for the value you get, and will break sooner.

I noticed their kids were mistreating them, and at times physically harming them.