Thanks for the post, sounds like you are really thriving!

Sounds like wherever I end up, almost regardless of the evaluation criteria at the state level, I can find success in a surrounding market, which will benefit me in a big way to be somewhat local to my investment market. 

This sounds like a great community and I am excited to connect with people with similar goals and interests. 

Sounds like what you are looking for is a T-12.

Sounds like you're taking some good educational steps.

@Dave Atwal it sounds like you've done all of the right things to protect your assets.

Hi Jill,Did you eventually replace your water submeter by products of assured automation?

$3k in non-mortgage expenses sounds ridiculous... that's $36k a year.

@Ned Carey, he sounds like a potential podcast guest.Anyone know of any good podcasts on the subject?

Along the way the GC and subcontracted plumber mentioned numerous times that they found great news or thought of more efficient solutions (i.e. the mainline plumbing under the basement was intact--that they had assumed was all broken and needed replacing).