That's probably a good place to start the estimates and layouts. 

Attorneys are conscious of this, and do not want to get on a judge's bad side representing a client that may technically be owed a fine, but is behaving opportunistically, and taking advantage of a landlord that didn't do anything to hurt the tenant in any material way.

If she didn't have a guilty conscious she would have signed the lease and been done with it...Being as I still do not have a signed lease, my question is -- if by the end of the month I still do not have the signed lease, according to her previous lease, her contract will go month-to-month and either tenant or landlord can give a 30-day notice to vacate.

They are very safety conscious, but understand that the majority of 1-6 family housing stock is over 100 years old.

You also need to ensure there is room for the new staircase; we ended up moving a couple of walls and reconfiguring the layout of the main floor to fit them in, but this isn't easy in a small house.

Just be sure to be security conscious. 

Going forward do you think you'd work with a GC or continue wrangling subs (the good the bad and indifferent) for jobs where you change the layout?

On your layout.

We worked with what was there as far as layout of kitchen & pipes, but next time I will spend the time to re-design kitchen in needed.

@Felando Merriweather oh I have I just haven't decided on the best layout and verbiage for my campaigns.