You could do that and put one under each unit window and plant greenery & perennial flowers.

Obstacles can either build resilience or break a plan!

No smoking/no plants is a must have lease policy now in Canada.

These travelling workers are contractors, the guys you see working on the large upright structures of steel at a petrochemical refinery and nitrogen fertilizer plant. 

I've been a dormant and sporadic listener for some time now, but the little seed planted the very first time I heard you all has taken root!  

@Vincent Plant you're missing a few things.... 1 is holding costs.

By using solar lights for street lights, solar leasing for owners instead of only grid energy, using under ground water to water plants etc.

I never actually used it or anything, and whether or not it's a gimmick; I didn't care because in my opinion, it planted the seed for the future.

I feel like I could be pretty resilient from investing in the stock market for a few years but I guess I will never know if a bad deal would permanently scare me off or not since I've never owned a home before.Do you think rather than finding an amazing deal it would suffice for now simply to find something that could reduce what I would be spending on rent somewhere and then continue to search for good deals?

WE would get a date down on the phone from our title plant.. of course not a full title report.. but frankly out west we dont run into the same issues.. there are not all these utls liens etc. there can be code violations but we usually negotiate those after the fact..