But then I wonder why I need to pull permits and hire a licensed and insured ____ to do the work.

I hire subs on there, photographers, videographers, virtually everything. 

Wholesaling is another option but not easy because there is virtually no barrier to entry as a wholesaler.  

We lost our original crew and then got caught up on schedule timelines and made some bad choices within our hiring process.

I spend around $2,000 - $3,000 per month in marketing and have a full-time virtual assistant.

If you hire a real estate agent insert the disclosure in the listing agreement and make them aware of it, and then when negotiating the sale insert a paragraph in your response or if you accept; write an acceptance letter with a paragraph identifying the encroachment of the fence into neighboring land.

I have virtually no assets to protect at this point. 

I saw a job ad on the BP pro area , they are hiring people who are bilingual and have foreign relations to invest .

Hire an attorney on this one. 

Give back the threat to sue them for your interest increase/difference on your transactions due to their unfair credit reporting, if they report it, you could call the bureaus and have it called off, then add that to the lawsuit, hire a credit repair service so you will have a paid invoice transaction. lol, all this for $100.