The ground floor unit is a maybe 4 inches below grade and thats about how much water ended up in the property. 

It's a commercial grade degreaser.

How would you grade the area?

Investors typically grade areas based on a lettering system A-C/D.

You will never find this kind of book on the best seller's list because the majority of people have not been in school for years if not decades, therefore, the math is going to be challenging even though it doesn't go beyond 7th Grade Math.I also gave examples of how to work out the IRR in this Posting: Understanding IRR Calculations in Frank Gallinelli's bookIf you can get past the first 3 chapters, you will get a great understanding of the IRR.There continues to be others that are posting in this very thread that really need to read that book and try to work out the example that was given in the Posting Thread I linked.When someone starts talking to me about Investing, I usually ask them a question to see if I should walk away from the conversation.It normally goes like this:Hey, a friend of mine put in $1k into an Investment 10 years ago.

This is an A+ grade neighborhood.

Negative grading/ poor drainage.

Give The Ultimate Guide to Grading Cleveland Neighborhoods a read.

Hi Henry, True sub-meter does sell commercial grade water meters which is similar to the city meters.

I think that diversifying is also good-- diversify in markets, diversity in type, and diversity in class grades.