if any, I would think I should be responsible for the utility usage during the drying/construction time, and maybe cost of their old clothing used to soak up water.

The local bank we'd been discussing this with said they would give us credit for rent as long as it started in July, but all parties would have had to cross their fingers that would actually happen with obvious downside of my 1031 failing if any of the three tenants didn't show up with July rent.So the storage deal - which I said is a good deal - just made sense. 

Sometimes money runs dry but the potential was there.

Currently they have two huge machines to dry out the water damage on the walls and ceiling.

Sure, some cases are like watching paint dry.

I lived in the area for about 7 years and I can say that Holly Holl is not a very nice neighborhood unless you are right on riverside dr. I

[fingers crossed]

., fingers were quicker than the brain. 

That's going to dry up over the next couple of years and we'll see competition get tougher.

That’s why I’m getting into real estate investing because longshoreman careers is going to become very slow and dried up.