See 3 houses a week somehow.Get exposed to real life,  real estate and vote for the businessman that won't shut down this country.

It will automatically shut off the water if you have a potentially catastrophic leak.

It can be rented to a church for a yard sale, a farmer for planting a garden, a parking lot for when people next door hold a party or other function.  

Besides mint going bankrupt and shutting it's doors (and my access to my data), an inopportune DNS attack on mint could be mighty inconvenient.I use Quicken and keep my data local (and backed up) and resist Quicken's pleas for me to move my data to the cloud.

Collage in Leadville.. and Leadville in the mid 70s was dead and dying the big mine had shut down.. but it became a affordable place to live for those working  Vail and Copper  I rented a OLD mining house for 125.00 a month for 3 of us.. but the gas heat was expensive .. 

You should be able to shut it off there.

(I moved to the area as an adult, didn't go to school here nor do I have kids or a church group).

I  am worried about the legality and insurance of renting both units to a church ministry for groups, services, and classes.

We had a refrigerator lock up/shut down on one tenant because the previous tenant never opened the freezer.

Quote from @Timothy Church: A lot of people go for vinyl as it is typically the cheaper option.