I'm new(ish) to the RE world, as well as the FIRE movement.  

High quality, gently used is the way to go....

Foundation cracks, horizontal or otherwise, tend to be more troubling when there has been movement of one, or both sides of the crack/fault.If that is simply parging over brick, it is also possible your crack is a washed out mortar joint between two courses of brick - then you have a new mystery to find out from where came the water.Is the inside face of the foundation wall visible?

This started as a small grass roots movement that has quickly escalated and now has the support of Kansas City's new Mayor, Quinten Lucas, as well as the majority of the City Council.If this proposal is allowed to continue as proposed you will no longer be able to take the following information into consideration when screening tenants.Source of IncomeNo criminal background checksNo credit checksCan not take previous eviction history into considerationMust work with Section 8, Housing Voucher ProgramsIn additional to these restrictions, we would also see the creation of a fourth city bureaucracy to oversee rental properties (in addition to codes department, Healthy Homes, and Human Relations/Fair Housing)What do you guys think?

PM me if you would like to see our "late rent letter" where we communicate with a tenant with the gentle approach first and usually get the desired result of them paying the rent and late fee.

What I was saying is that he continues to refer to "speculators" as dice rollers and that his comparisons to cash flow and appreciation/speculation are unfair.A typical definition of a speculator is 'someone that takes large risks, especially with respect to anticipating future price movements, or gambling, in the hopes of making large gains.'

Do you mind gently asking your readers (or Twitter followers, or however the news got out) to halt the barrage?

HI, you might  check out the Clarksville TN market, seem to be a lot of movement and I see interesting houses quite often.

Good pad and carpet dampens foot steps but does nothing for creaks and movement. 

In some areas of the country, there isn't a lot of movement in the winter.