@Bruce Scannell,To make the @ work, do the following:Hold down the shift key and type @?

With our litigious society you have plenty to worry about, and we all agree, except those true believers, that we would rather be in control of our destiny rather than leave it to the courts.

If we move, I will have to shift my career to a different industry altogether and start anew and he will have to build his biz anew or get a corporate job (at least to start with).

Modern society (unlike 60 years ago) uses a LOT of electrical devices that draw a LOT of power and we demand to have plugs including GFI's at proper locations.

This combined with ethical business practices, people skills and proper selection of tenants will be my best defense in the litigious society. remember that 15M lawsuits occur each yr in US..that is ~41,000/day!

The reason is versus someone who does an occasional transaction the active brokers can see market shifts way before others do and plan their business accordingly.Having said all of this I am 40 now.

Those same properties that are doing so well for you right now may have a furnace go out tonight, or a roof leak to show up tomorrow, or a $5000 eviction/repairs come up soon.There are things that one can do to move the mean (45 or 50%) more into one's favor, and also to shift the shape of the curve.  

This can cause a build-up of tension which get released (materials shift) suddenly making a knocking or cracking sound.  

One of the featured speakers was an attorney for a government agency.There's a notion afoot that because our society now has built-in racial bias that we can no longer disqualify rental prospects based on blanket qualifications.EXAMPLE.  

Population changes don't happen over night, so see the shift.- No possibility for employment.