Being aligned with your goals by being in the right environment is like a seed growing in good soil. - Read "The Wealthy Gardener."

Encinitas is cheap, City of SD is expensive, Vista is brutalRequirements: Stormwater management, surveys, soils reports -- these are big ticket items that vary a lot by city.

You could just pull them out and taper the soil on the slope down and plant grass.

Like once we found that a tenant moved a gutter downspout, eroded the soil under heat pump pad and caving in enough to shortly damage the heat pump.

Have a 1960s 30 unit single story motel where we are coming up on some end of life issues: the cast iron plumbing is disintegrating underneath bathrooms, radiators are starting to leak, electrical is in poor condition, and just today, discovered significant termite damage affecting multiple rooms.

I’ve realized basically every one of these signs I’ve seen is either hand written or just not professional looking at all they say “we buy houses cash” and have a number underneath . 

Long story short, they recommend a process that basically looks like...Soil scientist --> (septic engineer IF needed) --> site plan --> county approval...We've spoken to a few soil scientists and they all quote 2k-5k to analyze the property for an appropriately sized septic system. 

I have concerns that renter will not do whatever is necessary to remove and replace the soil which was saturated with dog urine.

Some have mentioned deeding it back to the original owner but then they could say “see ya” thanks for paying the mortgage during that time and turn around and sell it out from underneath you.

I "harden" them by polyurethaning the raw edges on miters, and the underneath lip along the counter especially by the sink and dishwasher, and the sink cut out.