Hot water tank was replaced 3yrs ago.

They waived the appraisal contingency, so there is a good chance I'll have to fork over more cash out of pocket than I planned on the make up the difference between the price and what I get loaned.This is a hot area of town, and aside from these issues it is pretty much everything I was looking for in terms of size, location, and quality.

Hello, I have two leads on undeveloped land in  a hot area within the Inner Loop of Houston.

It's in a hot town with lots of young professionals, so I am going for a clean modern look.

I have two properties in a hot area in Houston right now.

VRBO/AirBNB is the short term rental game and I wasn't keen on doing this because SLC to me doesn't seem to be a hot short term rental market.

If anyone has any information on where we can do some research to find out which neighborhoods are "hot" or moving pretty quickly, we would really appreciate any advice!

While most Net Zero buildings are energy efficient, perhaps even highly so in comparison to minimum building code requirements, there is nothing requiring them to anywhere new the efficiency level of a Passivhaus   .... this is why you will see odd things like warehouses with large rooftop solar installations being able to claim Net Zero.On the other hand, Passivhaus sets three metrics which a building must meet to be certified as Passivhaus compliant:  The building must have a heating and cooling demand of not more than 15 kWh/m2 (4,755 BTU/sq ft; 5.017 MJ/sq ft) per year  and a peak heat load of 10 W/m2.Total primary energy consumption (energy for heating, hot water and electricity) must not be more than 120 kWh/m2 (38,040 BTU/sq ft; 40.13 MJ/sq ft) per yearThe building must not leak more air than 0.6 times the house volume per hour (n50 ≤ 0.6 / hour) at 50 Pa (0.0073 psi) as tested by a blower door.Ironically, the research and pilot projects which fuelled what eventually became the Passivhaus standard was carried out in Saskatchewan as a National Research Council (NRC) project in the 1970s (the house is still in use today) and a similar project (Minnesota?)

An area has to be extremely hot for building new investment property to make money.  

Good chances are you'll be fine if you give them a notice to vacate, but what you may think is totally rational could increase your liability and land you in hot water if the tenant decides to lawyer up.