If a combination of galvanized and/or clay, you might have to put in a whole new drain system or get dinged with a hefty repair at some point.So I do think you can minimize some of the big expenditures based on the age of the home and the type of material they used for some of the elements like that.Ultimately, though, if big stuff like that does go 10 or 20 years down the road, you should have built up more than enough cash flow and equity in the house that a 5k bill won't be that bad.I still believe that the long term results with investing in real estate if you have the right product mix, you are going to do extremely well.I would love to hear from any investors that have owned over 20 SFH's for over 20 years and see if any of them went under or if, as I would suspect, they're doing incredibly well.....The small few that I've ever been able to talk to have all seemed to be doing incredibly well.

Besides that with basically every home built prior to 1980 will have some foundation issues because of the clay soil here in Texas, it's a given to allocate for problems. 

We have cruddy clay soil that moves constantly and causes all sorts of issues with the slab foundations, resulting sheetrock cracks, etc. 

I was thinking about the possibility of having a digital lease agreement on a Microsoft Surface that could be programmed with required fields and signed right on the tablet.

Contact @Clay Powell and he can tell you all about it.

-typed w/ tablet@DCreightonII

I recently attended a FortuneBuilder seminar and they previewed an awesome deal analyzer system that works on iPad and tablets.

Clay Smith is that rate as an LLC?

Chlorine tablets in the condensate pan of hvac?

I don't think you can ride a bicycle, tie your shoes, call ducks into a decoy spread or shoot a clay pigeon by reading a book.