Is it best to go ahead and get this going now or wait until I see how the eviction hearing goes?

Collecting some amount of pet fees like you did puts you ahead of the 8 ball.

Anna says towards the end of the movie to "not look too far ahead and do the next right thing" which is exactly what it takes. 

It's not as common with pipe that is sitting empty most of the time - like a straight up & down stack - as it is with pipe with tendency to have standing water, but either way the inside of the pipe loses its smoothness and has a tendency to "grab" more things.

They both warn against making a purchase decision based on the estimates.My point in posting was to make sure that I was keeping the expenses/debt service costs straight.

Each county has a different system setup but it all should be somewhat straight forward.

Around here most of the concrete guys just pour straight to the edge but we don't get anywhere near the kind of freeze/thaw and ground movement that you'd get in Illinois, so you might want to have expansion board around the perimeter.

Straight and simple to reach your goal of $4k cash flow should be as many doors as $250k can get you.

It's a 29 unit park and has a lot of deferred maintenance repair ahead. 

The road ahead is long but I'm glad that others have come before and mapped out the course.