Feel free to shoot me a DM if you want to talk about the market in more detail. 

This continued imbalance in housing supply to household formations and population growth.Changing Demographics and PreferencesPeople are also waiting longer to start families (Source), and people are valuing more the flexibility that renting provides in the remote work and online business era as well as the sense of community apartment complexes can provide in our digital and post-pandemic world where people feel less connected to the community than before (Source).

There is a free web site you can list your section 8 rentals on. 

Haven't seen him in what feels like forever. 

If you need any contacts that would travel to do the work feel free to DM me.

Feel free to DM me if you're interested. 

The sentiment feels a lot like 2008, home prices are unaffordable, Price to earning ratio don't make sense, rents are high (which is a goo thing only of the homes weren't so expensive), I feel like it's a ticking time bomb with the debt crisis.

Even if you have penalties available in the contract, given your "small payment" left, you may basically be telling the contractor to work for free from here on out (they won't). 

That cost is for 17-18 piers - this was consistent between the 4 contractors we got bids form and we are waiting on a response from the engineer about how many he feels are necessary.  

Bringing up comps and discussing a reasonable increase could go a long way in getting them on board without feeling blindsided.