(Many of them are from India - far from home - and I am hoping that 3 or 4 of them will want to live together in a house instead of hotel rooms.)Back to the rehab:I want to hire people from Craigslist at $15 to $20/hr and need to pay cash at end-of-day to keep them coming back (they dont return if paycheck is 2 weeks away).I have a worker's comp policy to protect myself from worker injuries. 

Do you think I need to go to the extent of building some kind of hand rail around the perimeter of this backyard deck to prevent a slip and fall injury, or would just making sure all the planks and nails are secure be sufficient?

btw, no rent control up in our neck of the woods!!

So my Camry was totaled and I ended up with some neck and left arm injuries that required about 5 months of therapy, xrays, and an MRI.

Beach bumWell, it seems I'm in your neck of the woods.

I can see its appeal but I much prefer my neck of the woods.

I was neck deep in a rehab we were planning to move into and I was running out of time to get my bride into her new nest before our first chicklette got here.

The risks of being a GC include aesbestos fines, lead based paint fines, OSHA safety compliance, safety training costs, employee issues and complaints, HR risks, labor and industries risks, worker injury, litigation costs, construct defect management costs, quality warranties, settlement fees, construction delay penalties, work redos, workers milking the clock, inadequate project management and inadequate construction management 2) Mistake #2.

Should I stick to my little neck of the woods or should I expand out of my area?  

@Jerry Puckett may know some guys in your neck of the woods.