Whether you are buying real estate, buying precious metals, buying stocks, buying mutual funds, buying companies, or giving someone else an interest bearing loan, the point at which you become an investor verses a gambler is when you are willing to put forth effort in ensuring that you have mitigated risk and taken advantage of all possible profits.  

Or there may be a metal service tag hanging on the well cap.

For her to slam on the breaks and then go peddle to the metal is fishy but you know more about the deal/situation better than us. 

Who's going to hire someone that is covered from head to toe in tats and has metal sticking out all over their body?

And in order to be able to successfully finish the project I had to learn: To make my own copper roofing The professionals quoted me about $30K to cover with copper a small roof (no more than1.5-2 squares)  on front porch, so I learned online how do do coper roofing borrowed and metal bender from a friend and purchased copper for $2500 wholesale.  

That's also very useful info about the rodents--one more reason to take preventative measures.I was thinking of it from the perspective of how materials break down (especially with heat/cold cycles)--typically, rubber and plastic type materials break down faster in a car's engine bay than the metal materials, for instance...which makes me think pex would break down (become brittle) faster than copper....but, I'm no engineer, so who knows...

If the box is metal with metal conduit that runs back to the breaker panel then you can ground to the metal box and ground the metal conduit to your panel. 2.

I am currently in the process of demoing the interiors and installing metal roofing over the existing structure.

And summer is seasonally lower for the metals as well.

All of our bodily needs have been met, but yet we are still clawing for that piece of apple pie.