Marty Makery of Johns Hopkins.I saw below YT vid, and you are right, I am worried that US is so woefully unprepared...thanks to gov't inaction & slow response...so many old folks are going to die prematurely...and so many young families are going to lose jobs...ugh...it's very important to elect capable prez...and look at what's happening in UK, it's even funnier than US response.https://www.youtube.com/watch?

I prematurely thank you for your responses 

Its a bit premature to write the obituary for Cardone's syndication business.

The gov seems going to artificially deflate CPI.These two are very premature early signs of recovery in tech and housing.

It might've been premature to offer something when I still need to know more about the forums myself.  

Turns out no repairs were made and a tenant was placed in the home prematurely (no health and safety items thank heaven).

However, I think a pop-top or scrape and rebuild would be premature. 

I guess since I am premature, I don't know what to ask for.

You can break up the progress payments small enough to solve almost any cash flow issue for the contractor (I pay my drywall crew daily) but until the material is on the property and/or installation is occurring, there isn't a need to pay premature invoices let alone writing a 33% check weeks before a job starts.There are too many contractors that start asking for big deposits at the end of the month for me to feel comfortable prepaying for services in large amounts.