There is a big shortage of affordable single houses in this current market and more and more millennials are turning renting (due to low wages and mainly because they saw their parents suffer the 2007 crash which hit FL specially hard)If you have a rental property you'll always have occupied, plus, using the FHA loan bears less risk and maybe no work assessment.

This neighborhood had suffered badly in a hailstorm about 18 months earlier which was why a lot of us had replaced our roofs.

I visited its showroom in Salem, NH and its plant in Clermont, NH.

Chinese steel and aluminum plants have almost no environmental controls, and they get free electricity.By ALL accounts they dump steel. 

Building wealth through real estate takes time and persistence, so don’t let yourself suffer the “paralysis by analysis” that many people fall prey to.

A tree is just going to get run over, if you want to plant shrubbery plant something with thorns.

He should bring the tenants some space heaters to get them through the next few days but that's it.I would not offer any discount on rent because they're not really suffering.

They seem to be suffering from recency bias.

If the builder announces a new shopping center and all the area around it is vacant land then the value would likely climb but if a builder announces a water treatment plant and the area around it is residential homes then the value would likely drop. 

We'll see how the inspection goes,  or as was said at my old power plant job- As the Turbine Turns.