You've got old, stable city neighborhoods that are attracting young families to put down roots.

And our decisions when faced with choices, are rooted in what be believe; our values, beliefs, opinions.

Believe it or not after this tirade, we are rooting for you.  

I swore off Section 8 years ago after several bad experiences, but they go all the way down to the root of who's running the section 8 office here in Memphis.

Would a tree removal (~$1K) due to root encroachment to driveway a maintenance/repair or treated as improvement (as in taxes)?

Most of the African nations are arbitrary creations from a colonial map, and the root of many of their problems are borne in this history, compounded by other factors such as racism (i.e. why does ethnic cleansing in Kosovo require military action but massive genocide in Rwanda requires sympathetic words?)

You can definitely fill the cracks with epoxy, but the downside is that it wil never look good, or the way you truly want it to look, and if there are already a bunch of cracks, they will only get larger over time from settlement, or tree roots etc.  

A month after that, it happened again and we learned the sewer line was destroyed by tree roots.

Well I am finally getting ready to take the plunge.I will outline my goal and scenario shortly however there are some handicaps and personal attributes that you need to be aware of first.Let's start with handicaps:Though I have lived in Canada for a few years now I never wanted or needed to establish a credit history as I wasn't planning to setup long term roots.

Sometimes we do have to say “yeah, but not in our unit”, but we also know that the ideal tenant will not come no matter how long we hold out.We are unlikely to see appreciation, because the grass roots revitalization is moving at a snails pace.