He is well aware that he is really failing in managing the test money I've invested with him.

Dang dude ,Your predicament reads like a standardized test story problem .. two trains leave the station in opposite directions going 85 Miles per hour ....

In either case you coud do a test room yourself if you really want to refinish.

@Ben Grubner for a lot of the south and southwest suburbs there is a pretty intense process to close.

Rent by room is labor intensive and hard to scale.  

This is obviously not feasible, sustainable or deflationary and creates a further risk escalation in the intensity of a subsequent decline in confidence or ramifications.

Only way to find out is to do a lot of testing to see if it's something people want.

Get the water tested, it is usually free from a local water softener company. 

However, in the course of my research I’ve come to find out that there are about 1900 properties subject to testing due to an EPA Superfund site causing possible lead and arsenic contamination.

Although under the Howey Test it would still technically be a security, I agree that generally it seems if there is only one other person involved it is okay to structure it as a partnership.