@Daniel Jarvis depends on your goals and how cash flush you are.

Car payments kill DTI when you are getting started and a lease is even worse, you don't even have rights to the "equity" in the car, it's like flushing money down the toilet.

We back flush the system 2-3 times a week (When we lived there, with tons of kids swimming, we did that maybe twice a month!)

There is also another side to the coin, you could see this in the housing collapse, once the market flushed out the owner who could not float a property in bad times, you seen the market hit a bottom as people just refused to sell or rent it for anything less, they would close the door and just keep it empty vs taking less.

The toilet doesn't flush or re- fill properly.

@Kellie Fernald Unless you are flush with cash, that volume of purchases might be a bit of a challenge.

There were many items I didn't list such as a $20 charge for getting the garbage disposal unstuck, or repairing a toilet seat that was falling off despite being a newly installed higher end toilet that was installed while they were there because tenants didn't feel the toilets flushed strong enough.

In addition to this you want to have professional paperwork in order which will act as a backstop should your screening fail to flush out a bad resident. 

Hi @Jonathan MariscalI don't recommend buying leads right away unless you are flush with cash and crunched on time.

If i understand corectly from your post and pictures, the floor is flush and straight, but you are concerned that there is a small space between the plywood sheets.If thats the case i would not do anything to the subfloor besides making sure that the plywood is properly screwd down to the joists and are not poping up, then just cover with the new floor.I hope this helps