You could have a busted joint somewhere downstream of that location.

Know a lot of people that could joint venture with you as money partners for down payment money, for acquisition money, and for rehab money.Seven.

If you're an experienced investor from Bakersfield or Taft area I'd truly appreciate your advice, if you'd like to joint venture on this project I am also open to that. 

Believe it or not the mortar joint would be the best place to drill into.

An agent gets the moniker of the IRS status of "DEALER" and on a joint filing, that can adversely impact the tax results. 

See Garn St Germain"A lender may not exercise its option pursuant to a due-on-sale clause upon--, (1) the creation of a lien or other encumbrance subordinate to the lender's security instrument which does not relate to a transfer of rights of occupancy in the property; (2) the creation of a purchase money security interest for household appliances; (3) a transfer by devise, descent, or operation of law on the death of a joint tenant or tenant by the entirety; (4) the granting of a leasehold interest of three years or less not containing an option to purchase; (5) a transfer to a relative resulting from the death of a borrower; (6) a transfer where the spouse or children of the borrower become an owner of the property; (7) a transfer resulting from a decree of a dissolution of marriage, legal separation agreement, or from an incidental property settlement agreement, by which the spouse of the borrower becomes an owner of the property; (8) a transfer into an inter vivos trust in which the borrower is and remains a beneficiary and which does not relate to a transfer of rights of occupancy in the property; or (9) any other transfer or disposition described in regulations prescribed by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board.

Alaska is an opt-in community property state that gives both parties the option to make their property community property.Here's the direct IRS quote (I've underlined for emphasis):Joint Ownership of LLC by Spouse in Community Property StatesRev.

If the title is "joint tenants with right of survivorship, title to the property can pass to the wife, assuming she is the joint tenant. 

Another thing is that you could try to incorporate an expansion joint technique in those long pipe runs; see link:http://www.copper.org/applications/plumbing/cth/de...

I would assume (with ignorance) that brickwork installed the same way would have the same trouble, being prone to cracking with normal operation of the door.IF I am correct, then that is not a symptom of the house sinking to the center of the earth, but rather just a product of stress on that mortar joint.