I leave a few grand in that account for emergencies.

This can leave you in a vulnerable position, or make it tough to find a contractor to work with you.

I see the benefit of paying a membership fee which gets "skin in the game " and commits people.

If they don't leave, then you start the eviction process.

they are not in the business of fixing things. they are in the business of paying me. that's what i want. leave the fixing to me.

To sum up I got an accepted offer of 53 K, and since i am a newbie took me a couple of days to read and re-read the contact and the addendum's, when i finally signed , another higher offer was also accepted, leaving mine as backup (1st lesson learned -->gotta be fast!!)

I would just make sure that it's as safe as you can reasonably make it and then leave it at that.

I can understand why he failed me.What I can't understand is the inspector was leaving, looked at the recepticles (they were trash before..painted over...chipped prongs) & says, "that's gonna fail too." why?

Bc it would my first should I leave it to professional lol

If your name is on the entity that partner might want equal billing.Or perhaps you build up the business to sell to somebody else and move on, a business without your name would be easier to leave.