When you Sell the property if the next person wants to demo and build anything larger than the old footprint...the City will not allow it unless the New Owner pays to Mitigate the Flooding problem with a Retaining Pond, Connecting to a Canal, Storm Sewer or other means.

He was picking up material for a job he was working on. 

She has asked if I would give a credit, or provide materials to help seal the apartment for winter.

One summit I went to the Real Estate Agent provided a few documents for checklist material (what to look for, contractor process, etc.).

Any advice on what materials for flooring.

When buying a single house, you are likely not receiving any type of discounts in regards to property management, materials, leasing etc.Take the same $50,000 to invest into a passive deal, even though you may only own a fraction of the asset, you are achieving the scale of having many other investors invest along side you.

I feel like the seller should have disclosed that as a material community nuisance.   

Material cost is not much, probably $200 at the most.Last pay a plumber $150/hr to install the clean outs.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:The undersigned, in consideration of the sum of $_5280_, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged does hereby waive, release and relinquish any and all liens and claims for liens for labor or work performed and/or material furnished to the construction project commonly known as The Bradley Rental located at xxx Myaddress Drive.

The other part of that is that, invariably, every place that's "almost done" ends up having some hangup that screws up the timeline, and then we are scrambling to find alternative contractors, materials, do the work ourselves, etc.