It's the dry cleaners and manufacturers that tend to kill you.Plus if it is all contained in the soil and isn't in the groundwater that can be a big opportunity to get a property for a good price.

[side note - we saw a house, in nice area, with the backyard falling into a ravine (soil clay) - the house is in a bad situation, as it is a foreclosure and no one has bit on it in over 180 days at 92k - comped at 129k.

.* Insight into your experiences with rock wall foundations common to southern climates & soil types during 1930s. * Insight on this deal as a whole.

The form is a real bear (it has already scared off one CPA ...), but I am going to give it a shot and have a different CPA review it. 

Oh by the way did I mention the load bearing wall in the basement that had been cut 18 inches from the ground?

If you want real estate for the appreciation potential, bear in mind appreciation is sometimes negative.  

Often times, with our investors in California, we aren't looking for the neighborhoods where the cost of buying is higher than what the rental market will bear.  

Commercial insurance is a bear.  

It is just something you have periodically checked for purity.I do know that we have different base soil types than Florida though and sinkholes are not as common here as they are down there so take someone from down there's advice over mine.

And why not just originally market the property at the increased price in the first place if the market will bear it?