Charge tenants a flat rate for water to recover those costs.

I expect a handful of these companies to go bust due to debt before oil recovers.

Declining home prices, my a**, more like life-changing appreciation, with the exception of a very short time period which we've already recovered from. 

It is not customary for a personal injury lawyer to request the client recover a certain threshold of fees if the lawyer loses the case.

But then he told me in a reply a month or so later that he was recovered. 

After spending the last 2 years recovering financially, we are planning on finishing out the other side of our duplex.

With commercial, the bank has to leave enough leeway that they can take ownership of the project if it fails and recover their money, or sell the notes to someone else for what they've got in it.

I am wondering what routes/options I have to go after my previous tenant to recover some cost of repair and breaking contract.

The discount applied on a loan is a function of the time and capital it takes to recover from the loan.  

Your profits start after your cost is recovered, so when you pay all cash, you have to recover all of it before you make a profit.