From my experience (23 years), I will tell you that attorneys can be fed one of two ways. 1) appetizers or 2) five course meals.People see items such as operating agreements, contracts, etc, as a check the box kind of thing- "my bank requires an operating agreement so I will use my favorite attorney, Google, to obtain one".  

It is very common in France where the landlord can decide to give away 2.75% of the rent in exchange for rent payment in case the tenant stops paying.

He apologized and said that there were all kinds of issues with reporting to customers and that they are making major changes

This isn't that kind of house.

Kind of an ambiguous question.

Yours is a common scenario for many, question is what are the numbers.

There are some in LA as well but there are not many.What kind of projects and investments are you interested in? 

also consider investing in some kind of rig that will stabilize the image as you move.

We kind of putted the idea around for awhile.  

With this savings growing quickly, where should we keep our savings to get some kind of a return in the meantime while I crunch numbers, read books and absorb as much as I can before making that first decision?