I've seen this for many years, my favorite maker of sports sandal was bought by Teva and they stopped making that type of sandal after some brief lip service. 

The front lip of the Snow Bucket can be tilted straight down to the ground and used to scrape snow away from the buildings.Our snow fall has been about 6 inches, then 12 inches, then 4 inches. 

@Russell Brazil @Stephen Glover you guys are making me blush!

Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser.People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst.  

A very simple (effective, but not attractive) solution to the sump pump (in a situation where you don't have just a cascade of water coming in) -5gal bucket with the bottom mostly cut out (leave a bit of a lip)Automatic sump pump2 bags pea gravel1 bag sandPVC pipe to run out of the crawl space from the sump pumpDig a hole 8-10" larger in diameter than your bucket and about 8-10" deeper than the bucket.Fill the bottom 4" or so with sand, then the next 4-6" with gravel.Set the bucket on top of the gravel, and fill around the bucket with more gravel (Bucket should be empty but for maybe an inch or so of gravel on the lip holding it down)Set the sump pump in the bucket and run the pipe out of the crawl space.This setup will catch and pump an AMAZING amount of water.

Hopefully you did not buy a lip stick property with an old house at a premium and it really needs massive repairs everywhere in the foundation, roof, ceiling, in the walls etc.Some residential PM companies take fees but make more money selling houses for commission so a side gig.

As I was mentioned in this thread I did have long conversation with Robert and he sent me a mountain of back up on his research and cost analysis which to me at first blush look in line with what I am used to seeing in less expensive markets..When I was building infill in Charleston SC I would wonder out to suburbs where DR was building and I could not even build the homes for what they were retailing them for..

poly has to be over lip of tub so water drains into tub at all costs.

Im being VERY tight lipped about the off mls muti until i know for sure that i can't get it.  

*Blushes* Well, this would be my favorite thing to do of all time.