Prices are so far below construction costs, rents are inching up (in my area), and there are plenty of opportunities to buy properties well below market value that there is a nice built in buffer to absorb further price declines.

Now, I clear snow personally if it snows over 1.5 inches.

I'm sure you personally keep your units in good repair, but this guy did not and he gives all LLs a black eye.Where I live the very few slumlords create huge headaches for all the rest of us like nazi-like neighborhood associations, landlord registration where you don't get to be anonymous behind an LLC, code-enforcement gestapo tactics that fine the LL for tenant's actions (like $100 if they don't keep the grass below 8 inches), and on and on.Look, I'm sure that tenant was a sludge-bag, but so was he.

.-- Stricter codes that fine landlords instead of tenants if a tenant's grass is over 8 inches or if they park in the yard and so on...-- Code enforcement being handed over to the police department...-- Stricter enforcement of existing codes -- as in five boards piled in a yard can constitute 'construction debris' and result in a fine...-- A majority view that all landlords are evil and greedy...And I could go on!

Not sure what type of post or if these are just a stake/stand.If the latter then take a 3/4 inch drill with a auger bit (paddel bit) will work also.

In Bend Oregon, high altitude, cold, desert (6 inches of rain yearly), we use native bluegrass.

It was very difficult to lay the block reaching out over the pipe ( there was only about 8 inches between wall and pipe)

Though Bush was able to get Dems and Rep. to come to terms and work together at the state level, at the Federal, the Dems will always view him as the enemy and the Rep. felt he was a traitor by giving an inch to satisfy them. therefore, he wound up the enemy of both sides.

They heard the announcer say, "We are going to have 8 to 10 inches of snow today.

Or you go in the basement and there's an inch of water.