It's an accounting liability and gums up your books. 

My last 5 houses may have had that asbestos tile and glue, however my ignorance was in play and did not know about the tile and mastic tape contained asbestos or really the problems associated with asbestos.

Truth is however...what this joker offers could be written on the back of a gum wrapper.

Would love to connect with anyone who has been successful flipping houses in Suffolk County, NY.I've been eyeing the Mastic/Shirley/Mastic Beach area.  

White cloth tape at ductworks, mastic, 9x9 vct tile are items to look for that contain asbestos.

Plus you aren’t being a mom and pop land lord using bubble gum and duct tape to fix stuff.

I was able to get the result the next day .... tile was positive but the mastic (adhesive) was negative!  

But I use mortar, not mastic to install tile.

Looked at the Wilmington area but open to any suggestions3) NY - upstate, NYC or even far out in LI (mastic Beach?). 

Saves me from having to deal with a broker, the NRA (or whatever the alphabet regs are called), listings that I get 3% on (even though I did 90-100% of the work to get it sold), dealing with sellers who think their house is worth more than it is and blaming you because there house isn't sold because they were stubborn on their asking price, dealing with buyers because you can't find that "perfect" house at their unreasonable price, investors who call you for comps without intending or means to buy the target house let alone a pack of gum, or want deals to assign and walk away because they can't close (happens to other wholesalers, too), or a number of headaches that I would have to take on being a licensed RE agent as well as an investor.Not sure if this helped anyone out, but I was chiming in with my opinion and observance of this long thread (I think this one should get an award).For grins and giggles, I'll be researching more about licensing and brokers in my area and State laws in Florida regarding RE investing.