Even if it was "properly" abandoned years ago, the possibility remains of soil contamination below the tank.

Drive them in with a hammer good and solid and put the screws wherever you need them after the glue dries.

Credit will dry up and people will not be able to borrow money , but will still have to pay what they owe.

Right now keep your powder dry.

We recently had alot of rain in the area, and I noticed that my dry wall is damp.The water is not coming up from the floor, but I can see where the water is coming down the walls.

A lot of this has to do with roofing claims #2 Recent hurricanes have added a ton of rain to the water table and lakes that certain parts of Orlando that were high and dry ….flooded.

Reasonably priced inventory has dried up a bit in last 12-18 months, at least from what I'm seeing, and it's not that I'm looking for 2015 prices or something similar. 

The good part is that the house stayed dry.

Are there parts of the city or zip codes that are (generally) more or less likely to have foundation problems due to the type of soil/clay/stone houses are built on? 

-Getting outside the real estate focus a bit here, but there are a ton of resources out there for figuring ranch profitability:https://extension.sdstate.edu/...https://texnat.tamu.edu/https://www.grainews.ca/livest...Obviously ranch profitability has several variables (rainfall, forage types and health, soil health, cattle prices, feed/hay prices, etc.), it seems to me one of the biggest factors that are controllable is the initial investment in land.