"could be unsafe" does not qualify.If on the other hand it does test to be leaking go ahead and charge them.

@Mindy Jensen I hope you don't mind but I went ahead and stole a graphic from one of @Brandon Turner's articles.

Point being if you are okay with your current contractor, but frustrated with the timeline, I would go ahead a create a SOW/contract with the new deadline and explain to him that it is only fair that you both are clear on expectations.

At least thats my advice.I truly believe that the people that are picking up houses atthese prices are really going to make a generational changein their finances that most of us wouldn't have the opportunityto do any other way.To me, real estate investing is one of the few remaining "blue-collar" ways to get ahead financially.

Of course, if you're rich, you're more likely to be intelligent about how to acquire wealth/cash, so there's that advantage again (and again, that's what capitalism is all about, those that have the resources and know-how and work ethic will get ahead -- not a bad thing).Unfortunately, during this same period, those with little cash reserves and no entrepreneurial spirit had essentially no opportunity to get ahead and the world around them in economic turmoil.

Even if that takes 10 years, you would be well ahead of the game from appreciation, tax benefits AND cash flow.

He knows something that they don't want know and have to discredit him completely for ahead of time.

To let these thieving sons of ***** take money out of your and my pockets is just plain wrong.I wish we could figure out how to tax executives like Dick Fuld and John Thain into poverty without destroying the incentive to get ahead or chasing away the people who really might save these companies.

You can't count on appreciation, but in those markets, that is the only way you will come out ahead. 

However, for the average person that "really wants t get ahead."