also might be good to add the flood plain in del city and the area in the village to the high risk areas although maybe you are talking about higher risk of evictions or vandalism or tornados (Moore)? 

So before you buy a restaurant, you need to know enough about running a restaurant to be able to go over te figures and know if they are realistic and to recognize what is being left out of the expenses column.Restaurants are deeply affected by new restaurants in the area, changes in roads, bad management, bad press, and just plain fickle public.Restaurants in my area are having a very hard time with the very steep increases in the prices of their main ingredients.

PREPARE YOURSELF, LEARNING WHAT YOU WANT, A PLAN IN WRITING, WRITE THE VISION, MAKE IT PLAIN, SO OTHERS CAN READ IT AND GO WITH THE PLAN.

Yes, I am being a bit harsh here, but it's earned and needed because slum-lording is NOT REI, it's just slum-lording plain & simple.

You took a simple approach and it worked, plain and simple.

WAAAAY more expensive than a typical broker commission.Yeah, they may do a little work to it and what not, but put plainly as a seller you're trading a higher price for a faster sale with more convenience.

It's just plain hard to predict on that one.  

On the other hand, an older house has been around so long that these types of problems have either occurred and been addressed by previous owners, or they're often plainly visible.

They face the street so they are in plain view.

Cigarettes are a drug plain and simple.One of my brothers smoked like a chimney and had a stroke.