If your walls are not plumb and square, bigger tiles will be harder to work with.

Bonus question: In general, when a home is damaged by tenant negligence or a simple accident (ie towel bar is accidentally ripped out leaving a hole in dry wall) , who is ultimately responsible for paying to fix that repair?

The money goes to wall street to be controlled by someone you never will meet to invest in things you will never see and most likely never completely understand.

I definitely think you need a nice vanity in there for storage instead of the wall mounted sink! 

You still retain all financial risk.

Renovations include tearing down a wall to open up the dining room to the living room.

He's retained by title companies to clean up "cloudy" title work so the close can happen. ]Do everything as an "entity" and not personally.

Let's assume kitchen minimum $20k, bathrooms minimum $15k, add at least $10k for walls, floors, miscellaneous, maybe add a parking pad (area doesn't have garages) and that's assuming no major structural issues.

So, I got my demo guy and the walls are gone. 

To achieve bigger and better projects, I have a good friend (my plumbing supplier) building an 18 unit, I want to GC that for free, just for the heck of it, and maybe do a sweat equity (10-15%) on the next client.Bottom line is, if you hit a wall, dig yourself under it to get to the other side.