And at this exact moment in time, Russia was pointing their tanks directly at Ukraine.

One way to find out if you have a toilet leak is to place a drop of food coloring in the toilet tank.

If it's 20 + years old then most drain field was just a very long pipe extending straight out from the tank.

Typically anything under $100K gets interest as there aren't many sharks there with really deep pockets.

And, if I'm reading your post correct, you actually have them hooked up to city water, electricity from the grid and then a septic tank.

Following this advice will help you to avoid explosions in your real estate investment aspirations.One final point, Ford Motor Company knew about the exploding gas tanks, but decided not to fix them because they wanted to save the $11.

In current market cycle, specially in Austin, lot of sellers are asking artificially high prices thinking some "novice" buyer or some impatient investor will buy at their prices.In Austin, buying in current frothy market w/o much +ve cash-flow and then after few years a large Capex can tank your few years of profit and lost opportunity in-between.You "have to" stick to your numbers that you are comfortable with. 

After the auction I told him I only went to 15k cause I had seen the front septic tank had been dug up quite recent.  

If I go to a bank I can expect my lender to be at least at the same level of sophistication and under regulatory requirements that my or a bank would be subject to, that's why I deal with banks and not loan sharks on a street corner. 

This war-era tank has galvanized!