I was unaware the washing machine did not have a drain pipe.

Definitely not an exhaustive list, but those are trades that I'll waste tons of time on and likely do subpar work when I can pay a pro who will do it in 10% of the time and the labor costs are pretty reasonable. 

Probably the most exhausted topic in these forums.

The insurance problem grows as we keep having more disasters (hurricane, flood, fire, pipe leak claims in the billions).

This is for a property sold at auction which I will exhaust all of my money at the closing table.

So now you have a hard core Landlord, and a PM who prefer to move on and will see little value in exhausting all legal recourse in pursuing the back rent.  

SFH in Tacoma WA, gas utility quoted free to bring a gas pipe from the street to the house and a meter.

Unless we were asked and were being paid extra , we never replaced the pipe going into the tank from the house . 

I started with an afternoon every other week, which was changed to an afternoon every week.So I put issues into 3 buckets: emergency (a pipe is leaking), within 24 hours (toilet running), and non-pressing (a door is not closing on its own), which is where most things landed and are handled that way.

Before I bought the house, I found a 3 inch pipe with a spicket and electrical wiring going to it.