It's about pairing property, tenant demo and amenities. 

Per the article, often these cases get settled (read: you pay the tenant $$$ up the ying yang for them to "go away".)*  If the impending case above  ends up favors tenants, it will make it that much more difficult to raise the rent to change the tenancy. 

Until July, apart from demo nothing was done. 

Just to have my part time employee handle repetitive things like painting, dry wall, flooring, trash, landscaping, demoing, has been a tremendous help.

If I had a contract to install a new roof, and I only demo the roof then got an argument with the client because we need to change 80% of the sheeting and did not specify that I only budgeted for 10%, then I walk away on the job, the client can hire someone else and go after the Performance Bond).Excess Policy/Insurance covers all the damages which will exceed all my policies/insurances, say someone sues me for 1.5M and my policy only covers 1M, this covers it.On my statement where I said having a licensed and insured contractor is not enough, is because all my subs are licensed, bonded, and insured.

I've done flooring, tiling, demo, installed cabinets, drywall, minor electrical, minor plumbing.

The company is great, and I'm happy to give you their info if you're interested.For the actual construction, we've yet to break ground, but we'll be sub-contracting all the work out, and we've currently picked our demo/excavation/foundation company and our framing/siding/roofing company.

By spending $25K to get it up to code, do you mean demoing the bedroom and re-converting it back to a garage? 

You don’t understand asbestos and demo work.

The house is on the market $299,900, The foundation is stone and collapsing inwards, it would need a full demo.