Highly doubt Tile would make the floor bow unless the floor is made of wet paper towels.

Like a wet Kansas (flat), substituting hurricanes for twisters.

I'm just getting my feet wet in the RE investor world.

We are planning to rent out our SFR which has a finished basement, but worried about the water seepage sometimes. We are worried that if we rent out the property, disclose it fully to the renters, and then if they sli...

As Sergey said above, "Ice and Water" membrane are very important, especially in a place as wet as AL. 

@Anthony DooleyLet's consider a hypothetical scenario your tenant on top floor one fine day decides to shower outside of the bath tub  near the toilet causing a wet subfloor and keeps doing it repeatedly until you start seeing leaky ceiling on the lower level floor, would you dismiss it with a "not too broke" argument and endure the repairs out of pocket?

So if you live in a condo tower (*cough* Ogden *cough*) you have to apply for special variances which have so far all been denied (to my knowledge).

You will be able to get FHA financing, will be close to your tenants, and will also start to get your feet wet in REI!

We coughed $800 to have a big old Olive tree trimmed and shaped, it was hanging over the roof.

While inspecting the crawl space one day though I discovered a wet spot above the sewer line.