Third, put the money into an account temporarily for a few months, settle in, buy yourself a gallon of your favorite Ice Cream, pop on the boob tube and watch a couple of good movies.

Which means that most people are kicking the can down the road only to find out later that it's turned into a 55 gallon drum.

Food-  buy a box of 1 gallon freezer bags.  

Given they are going to damage the walls while moving anyway it eliminates their need to touch up the halls and I can usually schedule to have one painter knock out multiple units in a day but even if its a one off sale, it comes across as good service for a small amount of money.In a storage area within the house or garage I will leave an unopened box of each tile, and flooring used in the house along with unopened 1 gallon buckets of the wall and semi gloss paints and one of each door hardware (kitchen and interior doorway.

Their fill hose sprung a leak or something and hundreds of gallons of water poured into the apartment below them.

I would have saved 4k right off the bat from school fees and a few grand from labor and materials because the city wanted a separate 40 gallon water heater, a double wall (to block the door to the house to the garage) and separate sub panel box so maybe about 5-7k.

You can always brung a few gallons of water and run it through a toilet.

That would burn through around 10,000 - 15,000 gallons in 24 hours.

Since owning them, we have installed features to store over 5,000,000 gallons of water in the soil that did not exist before. 

Gas $10 per gallon.