This just slowly lead to a drain of businesses and such.

Building a wall and door to enclose the duct work and Hot Water Heaters - $1675Move the hot water heaters from under stairs to new room - $1265Move the washer/dryer from the laundry room under the stairs for tenant upstairs - (cutting concrete to move drain lines and installing new 220 outlet) - $3,520Remove wall in laundry. take out current door and add another door - reframe, sheetrock, - $4,180Create new bathroom with washer/dryer added, new shower/tub, new vanity, new toilet - $7150New kitchen cabinets and countertops - $4,290Move stove - new outlet - $675Replace bedroom ceiling - $715Replace pocket door in bedroom - $300Create master walk-in closet off current bedroom - $775Paint entire unit - $1300This includes labor and materials.

Also, when it does rain hard there is some water that leaks into the basement, but in both units there is a properly working floor drain and nothing is down there to get damaged. 

Our daughter was able to line up friends as tenants for the fall, but we were still left with a 3 month gap between completion of the renovations and the start of the new school rental year, so to plug the gap and prevent a large cash drain we turned to Airbnb, made possible because we chose to furnish the house. 

You can hook a hose up to the tank and run it over to a drain to avoid have to empty the bucket daily.  

There is a retention pond nearby that is no longer draining out efficiently and has become more concerning with very heavy rain.

The house had old clay drain pipes, but the city didn't want to issue a permit for replacement until they failed for some reason. 

I have a 2006 tank which is spotless inside because I keep up with draining it every few years and rod maintenance.https://www.amazon.com/Camco-11582-Aluminum-Anode-...Bottom line is, you can even buy a used tank or lowest warranty tank, put a thick rod it in and run that thing for over a decade. 

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No soffets, no gutters, missing interior trim on all windows and most of baseboards, a wall completely in the way when you entered, washer/dryer relocate, no drain venting so rotten eggs overpowered you every time you ran water, etc.