Tenants said they saw him on the roof or in the hallway with a metal box of keys jangling.

A tricky thing with this house was that the original owners but a metal roof on top of their existing roof.

Assuming we are talking about one of the metal, covered fire pits that keeps the big embers inside or is this an uncovered hole in the ground, aka a house burner? 

I will admit I never understood why the US didn’t look at Africa that way (jewels and metals etc..)

Nothing's been done to it; we still have fuses and original wiring inside metal conduit.Thank you all for your help!

All wires run through flexible metal conduits (BX?

Never assume a contract is iron clad.

I have actually been zapped many times walking past the metal edge on the corners of my walls as the static electricity arced across.

But older vehicles that have acceptable impairments (dings, dents, maybe sheet metal damage, etc.) but aren't leaking fluids and start and sound 'normal'... there are some reasonable buys if you stay patient, even (occasionally) from the high volume sales areas like Raleigh. 

@Jorge CajamarcaIt is a four plex and three SFR... all but one has new metal roof.