Soil, pests, tree roots, water, etc.

Not too much needed to be done to the property, and although this wasn't at the 2% goal for returns, it was in a great area full of young professionals and grad students (not a lot of undergrad students in this particular area) and was specifically purchased for the long haul as a rental.So far I've had to replace one water heater, have a leaking roof repaired due to combination of weather and "critters" (still need replace the drywall from the damaged albeit removed area) replace the sewer stack and 12 feet of pipe ingrown with roots, and now I've realized that at least two of the electrical meters are routed to the wrong unit.

Most of the horror stories I have ever heard are rooted from trying to do business with brokers who are not really in the industry, but they do think they are.

If it was roots it was on me.

This crisis is different - a once or twice a century event deeply rooted in fears of insolvency of major financial institutions," Greenspan wrote, adding, "Regulation, the alleged effective solution to today's crisis, has never been able to eliminate history's crises."

Used to be in my principal residence I had to have it augered about once a year because it was clay pipe and the pipes were unlevel and had roots coming in the cracks

Just passing along info in the hopes of helping get to the root of these bugs.

Interesting TIME article about root cause of the US financial crisis .... not sure I agree but put a different spin on what I've read and believed before:"There is no doubt that the pressure on the U.S. financial system [that led to the financial crisis] came from abroad," says Caballero, who is the head of MIT's economics department.

You know my theory - that modern liberalism has heavy roots to the eugenics movement of the early 20th century.

You have to see how old the oak tree is and if it is at full maturity and height.As the tree grows and the roots get bigger and it searches for more water it can wreak havoc on a driveway.I have seen trees totally bust up a driveway and the whole section has to be replaced.1,000 sounds really cheap compared to the estimates I have seen.Is the driveway long and flat or hilly and windy??