Once they enter a tapeline without permission, the liability has little bearing.

Remember, bulls make money, bears make money, hogs get slaughtered.

He was nice enoughto forward me the results from the reports.The phase 2 involved soil samplesfrom various areas in a radius from the contaminated property.

The last gardener, despite telling him not to, would scalp my tall fescue grass during the heat of the summer, and that would cause the grass to nearly die because it was too short, and the soil was getting baked.

We were removing and moving some walls, some of which were load bearing, and we needed to pull permits.

I'm just excited for the opportunity to build in a bear market.

“You make most of your money in a bear market, you just don’t realize it at the time.” - Real estate obviously isn't going to jump 20%/yr again this year, maybe that's ok, I think this is a form of the long-forgotten saying that people used to repeat all the time right here on biggerpockets, but that's fallen into disuse over the last couple years: "you make your money when you buy."

I'm a bear surrounded by longhorns!

Call up Farmers National and ask them for an estimate of what the land is worth and have them provide you with soil maps.  

A 1925 build might still be balloon framed, in which case, you may be required (here you would anyway) to fire rate (resilient channel, 5/8" fire-X drywall, non combustible insulation such as rock wool between floors and separating walls) external and load bearing walls in addition to ceilings and dividing walls.