This was my ideal living situation as a single professional - easy commute to downtown via public transportation, walking distance to bars/restaurants, equidistant from two great lakes to run around (Lake Union and Green Lake!)

I'd love to meet up at a brewery or restaurant and keep the mood lite.

Then they sell pad sites up front to secondary players (restaurants, cell carriers, gas stations, etc) once the anchors (Target, Bed,Bath,Beyond, etc..) announce.

The city gave her the go ahead to demo but once it was time to start building they shut her down.

She saw a guy in the door window holding the door shut. 

As the business owner you have a choice. you can shut down for a week forfeit a weeks revenue and send your widget machine in for an upgrade so it can produce 150 widgets a day, or you can get a loan for the bank in an amount equivalent to one weeks revenue and purchase a second widget machine to increase production.Which do you choose?

Violators can shut down or face fines. 

Vendors were coming after us left and right but the most difficult challenge was dealing with utility companies and fending off shut off notices.  

Read on.If I was in your situation, I'd find someone in my backyard with experience shutting down a contractor this late in the game. 

@Charlie MooreLead paint disclosureLocation for their security depositDetailed lease that spells out every what if and rule for the property How to report maintenance issuesHow to pay rentWhere the water main shut off is.