I wish you luck but please let this be a warning to ALL investors.

With these relationships they will steer you to other deals, investors, and also warn you.  

on the apify screen it warns not to share the key.

Warning: Where you get in trouble is in two things: 1.

I was going to use the inspection as leverage, hopefully it’ll work in my favor but he was very stern.

its most unfortunate that you had to go through this deception and theft from someone who is considered a professional in this business. we definitely appreciate you putting the warning out about this character. as hard as it is to find a reliable experienced contractor nowadays its even harder to find one that's not a crook and a liar and that's truly pathetic.   

It could have been the tenants of the house right next to my property continuing to flush things they should not have despite lots of warnings from the city, and they moved out a little over a year ago.

Here were the warning signs as I remember them1.

You are now warned.  

There have been a ton of warning signs here on BP and other sites about the markets and how to be a smarter investor - but that is boring advice.