According to the San Jose Mercury news, people started living out of their cars when they had to choose between rent or car payment.

Instead of being set financially for life (if they had managed the money properly), the couple had to go back to work.During the dot-com era of the late 1990s, Silicon Valley was minting five new millionaires a day (according to The San Jose Mercury News).

.- Freon leaks on units less then 5 years old- galvanized pipes in attics with pinhole leaks- cracked slabs (and all that goes with that repair from cracked tiles to cracked walls)- AC condensing unit stolen in vacant house- underground plumbing leaks- and the best one was a voltage surge in a house that burned out the transformer on the AC unit, and burned out the stove digital display, and ruined two outdoor mercury vapor lights.

Less Maintenance in changing bulbsNow if they only came out with LED Mercury Vapor Bulbs!!!!!!!!

You need a Phase I, PCA, asbstos survey, lead survey, and miscellaneous toxic materials survey (mercury, PCBs, etc.).

It is almost impossible to beat Mercury for that type of risk.

Mercury isn't in retrograde. 

I have already called Travelers, Nationwide, Mercury, Liberty Mutual, Progressive.Also, an insurance company offered me insurance for $755 which is ok considering the other quotes I got but it does not include liability coverage which I think is important. 

We have upgraded the baseboards to hydronic, and upgraded the old mercury thermostats to digital, and added insulation in all areas, which has helped to reduce winter time electric bills, but tenant turnover remains high due to lack of summertime cooling, and high wintertime electric bills (electric bills range from $50 to $400). 

Lead paint, radon, mercury, asbestos, bla bla blaNext thing you know, you will have to have a house de-smokified by a licensed and bonded do smokifing contractor if a smoker ever lived there.America is the land of the big wussies anymore