Hey @Jay Hinrichs, for the cost of five gallons of avgas you can get a webcam from Costco and then I'll remote into your computer and configure it for you in 10 minutes...you could do the podcast on Monday!  

get the cheapest laminate flooring you can find. otherwise, ZEP high gloss commercial floor wax is like $7 at home depot for a gallon!

I drink a gallon of spring water daily. 

." ^ "The water is shut off I'm not sure why this 5 gallon bucket is over flowing" "Oh...

YOu still get homes back, you some times have to abandonment process to get the titles back...It's best to visit local parks, meet the managers and ideally the owners and bring a box of donuts and gallon of coffee to learn what is reality in your area.  

@Amy LuAs folks pointed out on your other thread, 242 gallons per hour is just 4-gallons per minute - an older toilet uses that much per flush.  

250 gallons an hour is not impossible.

I always like to do a little incremental updating and stay on top of things on a new purchase while the tenants in there, that way there's less to do when they move out. a new vanity and faucet is just a couple of hours work, and inexpensive and will do wonders to update the look.I like to buy slightly higher end faucets while on sale to have in stock for just such a situation. also if it's a older toilet that uses 5 gallons per flush I always replace them with a new toilet that I also buy on sale usually $100.00 or so but saves a ton on water bills.

Fill up costs for 275 gallon tank that is 1/4 full still means you put in about 200 gallons or more; when prices crept to $4 per gallon, that's an $800 fill up that lots of tenants won't be able to cough up, or if they do the rent might be short ;) And it will need to be filled multiple times during a normal heating season; this past December, being so warm, obviously reduces that a bit this season. 

The center and county offered a discount on high-efficiency toilets, which reportedly use 50 to 70 percent less water than normal models, and requests came flooding in.Today, installation appointments are three months out, and the tide hasn’t ebbed on Boulder County’s water conservation demands.As the United States consumes more water per capita than any other nation — more than 2.9 trillion gallons per year — the need to replace normal toilets with their more conservative counterparts is a real one: The U.S.