I'm an Air Force guy myself and just got started with real estate investing about 8 months ago.

Jay Inslee on Thursday proposed a new capital gains tax to help address a projected state budget gap of more than $2 billion over the next two-year budget cycle.A state tax on the sale of stocks, bonds and other assets would raise nearly $800 million during the 2015-17 budget period, Inslee said.Another new tax proposed by the governor this week would raise an additional $380 million for the state's general fund by charging polluters for carbon emissions.

I know there must be some allure to it since it gets so much air time..

The closed auto plants were also often abandoned in a period before strong environmental regulation, causing the sites to become so-called "brownfields," unattractive to potential replacement businesses because of the pollution hang-over from decades of industrial production.[12] The pattern of the deteriorating city by the mid-1960s was visibly associated with the largely departed auto industry.

I didn't show the picture of the neighbor's property (as it isn't my place to post it online) but the roots from the tree lifted their shed and deck nearly 15 feet into the air.

So until I start raking in some money to fund this, it's up in the air my friend.

In the ad we used photos from another unit, because as you can see from the first two photos below the original condition of this unit wasn't such that it would attract the type of tenants that we like to rent to.Before:There are always surprises in any renovation, and one of those in this redo was a hole in the kitchen subfloor where a leaking icemaker water supply line had rotted the floor.That was a quick and easy repair, but more expensive was replacing about 50 sq ft of the hardwood floor under the carpet in the main room, which had been water damaged by water leaking from the old (since replaced) through-the-wall air conditioner.  

I'm an Air Force guy myself and got started back in April.

You want to include air intake and they should all be vented separately .

He traded that for a water well drilling business later on, and soon added a Remodeling and Victorian Restoration component, a Heating and Air component and a Plumbing component.