Unlike the old TICs which required unanimous consent, and all the individual investors to share in the liability of the debt, these new structures have an LLC which the investors belong to, and then a TIC underneath it.

Or you can create what are called disregarded llcs which will fall underneath your main LLC, at tax time you will still only have one filing.  

The other builder I'm talking to wants me to get an engineer involved to look at the soil and foundation plans.

Mainly cosmetics thought out the main area of the house, but the foundation has shifted. 3 walls are caved due to the soil and drainage.

So if I was bidding this project: a ton of big tree removals, with stump grinding, and soil backfill, on a slope to accommodate space for a 3000sqft home, $25,000 would be more than enough.I've done tree removal projects like this before in Los Angeles, typically under $5000.I'm not convinced there's any way this could cost more than caisson work.

Adding some top soil and grading it away from the foundation is an easy fix for this.

One we are planning a garage conversion and need to insulate over the garage and add to the rest of the atic, as we are stretching the capacity of the AC with the extra sqft.Second house had a possum in the attic for a while and between the compressed insulation and the areas of "soiled" insulation that were removed we need to add some.Anyone have a recommendation for someone to handle these two projects?

Donald Latson Unfortunately, I am "capped" with US soil experience lol.

Since grout isn't water proof, the original caulking underneath  is still doing its job, along with the grout which may have fortified it a little .

So to make the floor level and to have some mortar underneath the tiles by the outside wall/sliding doors they have to put almost 2 inches of mortar near the door way areas, and that takes quite a bit of time to put down.