According to a couple buried stories in reuters and marketwatch, China is recalling all of the gold it stored in London, back to China, to be stored on it's own soil, at a location to be used as a trading hub.

This holds up the second floor living room,- I'm not sure if the first floor back bedroom is legal and seems to have no foundation but is built wood on soil!

I'm watching the playoff games today, and it seems every few minutes there's a VRBO commercial....They aren't mentioning AirBnB by name but they show a couple staying in a trailer where nothing works and then a couple staying in a really nice house with an outdoor rain shower, BBQ, pool , etc.....And the wording underneath says - 'Private Residence'.

Sewer cleanouts, crumbling cast iron plumbing, soil erosion issues, the list goes on and on.Today, I just had my plumber show me how to replace the coupler in the pump attached to the hot water heating system of one of my properties.

I would be worried about future liability for cleanup costs if it's determined there is fuel in the soil.

Need at least three acres or more if your soil is rocky.  

You can have two houses that are identical according to the data on paper/ virtually, but millions of dollars apart in value for infinite reasons that you just can't know without being there (level of finishes, condition, smell, same builder or different, how the property will show to potential buyers, micro-location (same sub-division or different one across the street, one has awesome views while the other doesn't, one could be on a lake while the other isn't, one could be next to gas station or on a busy street, near train tracks, a smelly factory, backing to commercial or high density multifamily, one could have settling issues with the foundation because of expansive soils while the other doesn't etc. etc. etc.).

Im from the lafayette area in Louisiana and I have come across a few deals but haven't put any homes underneath a ccontract.

Timber resources, correct soils, agriculture, etc... the real question is 'what are you looking for?'

Find one with an underlayer attached, and if noise is an issue put a sound suppression pad underneath.