You can remove painted popcorn with a good 4-inch razor scraper mounted on a good pole in good hands making steady strokes with minimal damage to the underlying drywall.

Do you have 1 inch pipe coming from the main into the bbox already?

Wooden deck less than 30 inches above ground, attached to the house in the backyard, with more than 20ft rear setback and 10 feet side setback from property line.2. 

Give tenants an inch they’ll take a mile.

Me personally I like to keep them the same for 12 months then inch the tenant up.

... we're not putting "Loan To Value" all over your house :) ... it stands for Luxury Vinyl Tile which comes in planks that are about 6 inches wide and 4 feet long.

The minimum sill height is 44 inches above the finished floor.  

The way to make it slightly better is to remove the 30 inch standard range that's there and put in a 20-inch compact range, pushing it out away from the cabinet until it's even with the outside wall.

It's currently at about 7ft and we'd need to get it to 7'6 inches to have it be to code as living space. 

The area called "sandlake" has a neighborhood with about 14 houses that sank 1-12 inches, so I'd stay away from that area.