There is the tile, then about an 1"-1.5" of concrete that is held up and together by a very sharp metal mesh.

This is true for any kind of investing, be it real estate, stocks, bonds, precious metals or businesses. 

Remember even if you don't know about something and it comes back later guess who is responsible for knowing all of this, you the realtor.Here are the most frequent claims made against realtors, fraud, negligence, breach of contract, breach of duty, misrepresentation regarding floods or leaks, misrepresentation regarding the value of property, misrepresentation regarding the condition of the property, consumer protection act, bodily injury, property damage and earnest or escrow disputes.How do you protect yourself as a real estate professional, take a look at what I offer as in legal service, some people compare this to insurance, I say its more of an assurance so you can worry less and live more.

If you opt for a metal flue, it can exit the roof (easy to flash and shingle around); if you opt for direct vents, then you just shingle the patch.  

Roof was coated, primed and painted aluminum color to restore the look of the metal roof.

Hint: They were not heavily leveraged and had a rapid exit strategy from their leveraged positions.Consider precious metals.

At least that's what the plumber's metal detector looking tool was reading.

Two of the radiators being removed from my rehab had over twenty sections and were upstairs - the effort needed to move that intact is just not practical; those will be broken up and at that point they are worth about $0.10 a pound as scrap metal.

Probably not the cheapest solution and I don't know the tenant base but you could put a 4-5' deep porch across the front with an awning/roof, maybe a metal roof since its Texas I assume.

Or 3) if you just want to extend a raised counter from the back of the base cabinets, I've recently discovered some angled metal extensions at Ikea (in the table-leg pick up area - (I guess because they're very short, 6" or so, little angled table legs LOL).