Looking through some duplex opportunities in Tampa, Fl and found one that meets the 1% rule and has room for forced appreciation...big downside at this point is that it’s Wood Fame instead of Concrete Block.

Boom , job stops , almost 2 thirds of the tank are in the addition , its a 1000 gallon concrete tank .

On the surface I get your reasoning but in practice I'd be wanting to see concrete examples of actions by a bank / lender that suggests opportunism. 

Like a medication, if we're compliant and take the prescription for shopping, mortgages, etc., we'll live longer, essentially.

My fingers are crossed that while not permitted from the get-go, that the work on the modification is code-compliant and that it'll just be a matter of just getting it permitted after inspection.

At the very least, I'm sure they would have sabotaged my fence posts during the night while the concrete was curing.I'm not going to bother discussing a "joint" fence with the rental property owner, for a number of reasons – one being that my new fence would extend well beyond the existing chain link fence border, to cover the entire side of my house and well into my front yard, up to the allowed street setback point, and there's no way he would agree to share in that additional cost.

This approach tends to appeal to computer programmers, a new segment of the freshly affluent in our society who have made plenty of money out of math and are already half-deluded by their success in computers into believing that equations applied to concrete, earth, wood, steel, human failings, weather, and the inexorable passage of time will yield a golden system that anyone can use to become fabulously wealthy out of land and the structures built on it.Regard the mathletes and their beliefs with a healthy dose of skepticism, drill down past all the fascination to what these numbers are supposed to offer you in the way of insight, and you'll be fine.

Should I put concrete around this area prevent water from seeping into the foundation and basement windows or pitching the ground level so water drains out faster towards a drain that goes out to street drain. 3. 

I am currently self employed in concrete pumping.

My contractor said we might have to pour some concrete down there but we won’t know the extent of the fix until he opens up the floor.