Her are a few examples: IRS Tax Liens, Errors in how property was transferred 50 years ago, failure to properly notify an interested party about the auction, unpaid estate taxes of a prior owner who died while owning the property, etc.

Tenant suffers damage due to flood for failure by landlord to inform him that the property is in 100-year floodplainA 100-year floodplain refers to any area of the land designated as a flood hazard with 1% or greater chance of flooding each year by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Failure to vacate by X day and X time shall result in holdover rent being owed as well as an action for eviction being filed against the tenants. 

IIRC, it said it has a 12 year warranty and it was right at 13 years old.Its failure mode?

Not to mention, any other penalties which you may receive for violating any other provisions of the law in failure of the proper conveyance of real estate in New Jersey.As far as your question pushing the certification(s) onto buyers goes; let me reiterate that the law states that the seller bears the responsibility of obtaining certification(s).

I like getting the pipes up into the heated area so as to avoid the same failure in the future.I'll run pex up the walls and along the ceilings, building a soffit around the piping where needed.

Keep trying, don't give up, and remember failure is just one step closer to success! 

Failure is not an event.

While the restaurant seems to be established those types of tenants Generally have a high failure rate.  

I rather learn from the failures of others rather than fear of failure and falling back into analysis paralysis.