Fire alarm, running toilet, broken windows, furnace filters, lose or rotted boards, filthy tenants, unwanted pets..... the list goes on. 

As for "everything needs to be brought up to current code".....ridiculous, they know it is a 1963 home, tell them to pound sand and move along.

So if you have a house rental in Texas you really get pounded with high taxes.Where I am in Georgia we pay about 1% in taxes so if you have a 200k house the taxes are about 2,000 a year.    

If Sarah Palin is such a 'non-issue', why are those on the left continually attacking and pounding her?

All of this and many other factors need to be considered running a restaurant.The biggest issue a one off restaurant faces is food quality and pricing.Small places can't order in massive quantities so do not have long term food contracts locked in at a set price like chains do.Instead food cost fluctuations can hurt a small restaurant plus the quality you get from a supplier might be good one week but the next a new company came in to the food supplier and gave them a cheaper deal to use their product and try it out.The new product may be better,the same, or worse.The problem is you pay the same price and charge the customer the same price as before but it might not taste as good.I don't know how you will buy this restaurant as you have no experience as an owner.You can't just open a restaurant and expect people to come in.A few will but not enough to make a great business.You have to pound the ground and press palms and get the product with free samples into people's mouths.This will generate buzz for your restaurant and create customers with a relationship.Customers are habit creatures.Get them a great experience,great food,decent price and you will get repeat business.

This has been a great work out and I've even dropped a few pounds and I feel great.

Or is it something concerning the neighbors such as their 100 pound barking Rottweiler next door?

This is what brokers try to pitch as a pound for pound price.

Tell them to pound sand . “ I’ll fix it just as soon as you leeches are kicked to the curb !”

My preference is a dog under 35 pounds and not a heavy shedding type, aggressive, or a puppy.