How am I able to recover my funds at closing without assigning contract? 

You could turn the matter over to a collection company (including law firms that do collections on contingency), but normally, they charge a very high percentage of what they recover, and you normally have to authorize them to settle for any amount the want to.

The Buyer should be able recover all monies spent on due diligence, including legal fees, building inspection, environmental inspections surveying, title search, and accounting fees.

Milwaukee got hit hard in the 70s and 80s when manufacturing jobs moved overseas, it took 50 years to recover and that has been going so quietly in the backgound that nobody took notice.

It should be noted that, under many software policies, your account could have been permanently deleted after 30 days of nonpayment, with no way whatsoever to recover your history.

Buy a $100k property, put down $20k, and your CF only needs to recover $20k. 

However, the money I’d save by not paying $3500/month mortgage is $42,000 after 12 months – thus recovering the money paid on the capital gains tax.QUESTION: would you advise selling the rental to pay off the new home and take the $1400/month rental income loss (and gain $3500/month savings) or would you advise keeping the rental?

All great points.The plan is that the partner would not mark up costs, recovering his GC markup through profit share. 

Should only be a few hundred dollars and worth every penny IMO.My last lease, which I thought was pretty up to date, didn't' allow me to recover attorney fees for an eviction, only the past due rent. 

Can anyone explain the process of recovering the damages?