Like @Jay Hinrichs said, it's just cheap insurance..... my clients that buy my new builds will do sewer scopes as well.. we have not had any bellies but we have had debris and rags etc stuck in them.. better to find them up front than to have a back up in a brand new 750k home LOL..

I want to be a sponge and soak in as much knowledge as possible.

Great house hack in a great area!

If you want to do it all manually in a spreadsheet, you can definitely save about $30 a month here but how much is your time worth as well? 

I am also looking to invest in a property in Texas, specifically San Antonio. 

Purchase price: $307,000 Cash invested: $118,000 Purchased in January 2021, we successfully renovated the interior and exterior of this home that resulted in a premier vacation rental property.

Overall, its just better to put that money away in a rainy day fund and good insurance.

A 1031 exchange is a great way to indefinitely defer the tax and use it to grow your RE portfolio, and build long term wealth.The most important factor in a 1031 exchange is that your qualified intermediary must be in place prior to the closing of the sale of your old property.

RE investing is a numbers game so the more properties/options you look at, the higher the likelihood you'll land a good deal in a shorter amount of time.Only 6% of Suffolk 2-4 family properties listed since '23 have been triplexes and quads. 

Similarly, if you put all Class D tenants in a Class A 4-plex, what do you think will happen?