Many times an insurer will use this coverage as a "good faith" payment to help avoid litigation.

Working as an assistant will train you to be an assistant.I think the best way to learn is to have faith you'll find a way around whatever happens, but just get started (i.e. the sink or swim method) en-route to your goal. 

You won't anyway, because the escrow company is owed some fees, but if you were, in good faith, trying to close the deal, you should get the majority of it back.

So I basically just took a leap of faith......

They hop from one dwelling to another in a parasitic pursuit of a host, enticing you with the promise of the simplest long-term behaviour of paying their rent at the beginning of each month and keeping your house clean, just enough to ensnare their unfortunate host, no matter how good his intentions or faithful his actions.They show their welfare stubs during their application to indicate that all they have to do is sit and breathe, and out of your own tax dollars will flow in the rent to which they agreed in writing.

I'm betting your partner brought you this deal in good faith expecting to be an equity partner on this deal, not to earn a fee with a part time job.

Keep doing what your doing and have faith.

But thanks to more bad faith "fiduciaries," all I've done is lose money on them, and now I'm about to lose them.

To rent to them would require faith alone.The only business that should ever rely on faith is a church.

Its an 8 week project for $40K so I am leaning towards $10K check to start as a sign of good faith, and then $10K every 2 weeks with a credit card.I will also pay for materials directly to the supplier.