@Michael Baum I could visualize everything as I read your post and I feel your pain.

Yet it feels like the gamble might be too big, especially once you open up state databases and visually see sinkhole incidents throughout the neighborhoods.

If it happens more I think I will have to just make lease amendments that clearly & visually show where each is allowed to park.

Finish work is MORE than 50% of the job, but demo has a big visual impact.

Don’t forget other things that aren’t as visual.

I'm a visual learner maybe if I could shadow someone for a week or 2 I could definitely succeed.

A VA Appraisal is just that an appraisal with minimal cursory look at some items such as is the water on, turn the heat on and a ground level visual of the roof.

Set your focus on the big picture and visualize yourself 3 years from now and what your real estate journey might look like.

You may be able to recoup some of the utilities this way.For sure-- I'm assuming that a lower rent will (visually) attract more potential tenants-- so if we advertised, for example, $500/mo rent plus $50 utility fee, more people would include it as a possibility than if we advertised it at $550. 

The examples of “a small corner of Utah, less than a county, etc.” are just meant as a visualization to demonstrate how much square mileage of solar panels it would take to power the country and demonstrate that in terms of producing enough electricity from solar to meet our energy needs, it’s entirely possible and would take up a relatively small percentage of our available land.