This is acceptable in mild climates like CA and makes maintenance easier (talk to your plumber).Laundry Room Wall: I don't love this aesthetically, but maybe I'm a snob.

That way I know the real estate micro climate in that part of town and can finely gauge quality of units and quality of tenants.

Great food, wonderful work experiences, and a very interesting climate.

It has 2 major and practically permanent advantages: Weather(especially relevant in the climate change era) and location between Berkeley and Stanford, that no other place in the US can successfully overcome.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/888/topics/850101-bay-area-housing-2020-crash-or-no-crash

“In North America, California is now setting the pace, and we're very serious about it,” Brown told a crowd of hundreds at a climate change conference in Los Angeles.

Especially in cold weather climates, timing of vacancy can make a tremendous difference.

Also porcelain is a cold floor and LVT is a much warmer one especially in cold climates.

Even in a dry climate, any increase in humidity is misery to me - west coast kid here.

Of course this is all relative to your climate, maybe air conditioner is a better example in Houston, but you get the point.

US news and today's world climate for that matter, support my cause for concern.