Look for pockets of water on the walls and ceiling, especially after rainstorms or when the snow begins to melt.2.

:beer: When the weather drops, a cornfield is a deer magnet as they rush there to get the high calorie food.

The heat melted my new vinyl siding.

Hardly seems worth it considering you will get so many phone calls from tenants that your phone might melt.

Just in case we have another melt down and I need to go back and grab tax's paid. 

Listening to her got me hyped about Detroit.  2k properties did not appreciate.. they sold 50 years ago for more money than that and peaked about 2000 in the 100k range.what happened was a epic melt down of real estate values unseen anywhere in the US or world probably for that matter.so they are just crawling back up to where thence they came.. they have no appreciated.. heck they would cost 200k just to rebuild. 

Alleviate the total melt down scenario that I have seen ( especially in Detroit) IE the PM ran off with 300k of owners rents..

Think Wizard of Oz  scene when the witch is melting....but yes some investors consider Vegas and Phoenix as sort of part of Socal for investments.

Then we pour on the heat a few months later and melt you into the pavement.

If the seller is deliberately covering something up, when the snow melts, you have recourse.