The water created a hole in the drywall in one spot of the ceiling no more than 10 inches at the largest point.

There is 2 1/2 inches vertical difference with ac and 3" width difference ( 1 1/2" on each side).  

I just dont want you to think near the lake is a selling point in Granbury right now bc it is not.http://savelakegranbury.org/ We need 18 inches of rain in a couple week period.  

Not so sure about the things there in FL, but most investors in my area, they try to save every inch of dollar they could, on top of that, they don't want to put confidence of their budget to anyone else, more like a micro management style.

I agree with the diversification, but nevertheless, oil talks in Houston.We have been tracking the rental market for the past 8 years and has compiled a live Rental Market report covering all major metropolitan areas in the nation.Apparently Houston is not yet feeling the heat from the falling oil prices as the rental market finished 2014 strong with an average of 11% rent increase over the past year.Is so appears that the past 12 month trends have been inching up every month across all bedroom types from Studio to 5 bedroom apartments and houses.Rental Price movement over time is an important index that shows the market sentiment, and for Houstonians this sentiment might soon start to change with the announced job cuts from major oil companies.I have talked to a couple of local real estate investors and they have also started to be anxious in anticipation of the oil market impact on Houston’s job market and moved to hold position, down from the feverish buying spree that has occurred over the summer.

At some places the cracks are a quarter inch thick.  

So 1 side wall is fine for height- the other will be cut 4 or 5 inches as well as the back portion of that side.( if that makes sense).  

Although I would not expect you to pay for compaction testing/verification, I would make it a point to monitor the backfilling operations and direct the excavator to recompact the soils in to 6 to 8 inch lifts coming back up.

I found this to be way faster than going at about 1 inch per minute and trying be neat.Then cutting in plus corners.

If you give an inch many tenants will take a mile and it becomes very difficult to enforce the lease.