It was in winter and there was a glacier on the exterior brick that was a foot thick and 3 feet wide from the busted pipes running non-stop.

wow great stuff, one of the personality issues for me is learning to have thick skin...great advice guys.

I suggest 13 mm or even 25 mm thick materials planks.

As for laminate being cheaper, probably not if you compare wearlayer thickness and what type of scratch resistant finish it has including it's resistance to moisture.

It takes some thick skin and fist biting, but treating tenants with respect, no matter how nasty they get, having the "customer is right" (within reason of course) and  excellent customer service PM companies are outnumbered by the PM companies that want to fight with tenants.

Two rules have guided me through thick and thin: never put all your eggs in the same basket or even basket type; and 2 never place yourself in a spot where you can be forced to sell. 

While a 203K loan may make those concerns go away, you'd have to have really thick skin to do a short sale AND a 203K loan at the same time.

I've been there and this has been my solution. 1 fix plumbing issue2 spread lime (garden lime) thickly over affected area.3 let nature take its course our Florida sand sucks up moisture and nutrients in no time.

Depending on the quality of your subsurface I'm not sure the product thickness matters as much as the finish (and abuse).

I had an aunt who was a real estate agent and she was very protective of that thick MLS book, though I admit that was a couple of decades ago.My basic question is how to attract a mentor?