And yeah the soil here can be tenuious.

I have an Oreck Carpet scrubber that does a decent job on normal amounts of soil, and we rely on a local carpet cleaning company for anything beyond that, so either way we've got more time or money wrapped into clean carpets than we would in clean hard surface floors.So far, we haven't removed carpet and found wood floors worth finishing, but if we did that is the route I would take. 

Wait til someone puts a soiled dog bed in your washer, it's out of order untill it's cleaned out and the next customer will be ticked!

NO bad soil like some states from Texas through Mississippi. decent landlord laws. 

One of those 5 employees filed a Civil Lawsuit for $1.2 million for all the crap above, but the lawsuit was dropped within 2 weeks and I paid only $25,000 because I had a video that showed the ex-employee stole an $8,000 quadrunner from a storage container I owned in Sandy Valley Nevada (280 miles from Los Angeles).

We now need to get soil reports done, a structural engineer involved, etc. so we can firm up the plans.

Quote from @Sandy Chau: @Mitch Messer @Tom O'StasikIndependently, I have been looking at Oklahoma as well (OKC and Tulsa) but I learnt that the home insurance prices are the highest in the US, even more than Florida which is notorious for high insurances.How do the investment returns work with home insurances even higher than the property taxes?

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We require the dog is fully vaccinated and does not dig in the yard, soil in the house, cause general damage.

When I've seen this it has been because the walls weren't constructed well and there are drainage problems causing the moist soil to push inwards.