Lessons learned, progress report.

So I purchased this kit, and have a verbal agreement with a totally new person to come and assemble it,($1,250.00) USD which will cost almost as much as the kit itself.
I am apprehensive; the only other thing I've ordered online from Lowe's was my greenhouse. It was three months late being delivered, but that was just as all the covid backlog at the ports was clearing up and supply chains were getting back up and running.
This car port saga should be done in about 2 weeks. I will be able to wash my car and keep it relatively clean for a much longer period of time.

One of the things I'd spoken with the original concrete guy was grading this back yard. (for $500) Do I trust him? Do I wish to risk spending more money with someone who messed up my carport?
At present it slopes downward towards the house. I want to put some sort of patio there, possibly flag stone, possibly brick.
So I've made verbal agreement with a DIFFERENT man, to clear this side yard ($1,000.00 USD)

of several stumps, a metal T (one end of an old clothesline) then putting most of the dirt removed from here↓

Down that side yard so I can landscape and make it purdy, also I hope to have enough to put some in my front yard, as the soil, if you can call it that, is highly depleted.
A master gardener has told me I can't put much out there or I will smother the roots of the large oak in the center of my yard.
Then I want to remove the corrugated metal from the side of the old garage, replace it with plywood (from the old stage platform in the studio) so that it can be truly closed in, dried out, and I will finally have a real workshop space.
By that time, I will be broke ha ha ha.