Definitely bummed about it lol.

That means there's still a 3% chance you'll be dealing with squatters or other bums.

One can believe in a safety net and basic social equity and protections without rewarding bums and criminals.

I appreciate that it is hard to get started in life and you are very young, but that does not excuse creating a false impression online to induce potential investors to "connect" with you.

Then...here comes someone that induces the seller to violate a covenant of the loan agreement by transferring title without the bank's approval...someone we did not underwrite.

You are starting a new lease with these tenants, so basically you can charge whatever you want, including pet deposits and pet rent (assuming its legal to do that in your state), and increase in rent (again, some states limited how big of a % you can increase it).Its the balance of increasing it closer to market and protecting yourself for eventual damage by having pets in your units vs inducing a vacancy and starting over.....which can be scary but often its a good thing when you take over someone else's tenants. 

Or can you induce seller to help you do a  cash for keys plan and pay the tenants to leave now ?

I can't believe we haven't considered this for our existing rental property.I'm curious, in the event that there was tenant induced damages to either their own property or landlord's real property, what would the recourse be if no renters insurance was in place?  

Your example of the ice machine or other hallway areas in hotels doesn't hold water, because unless the hotel vets every single person that enters that establishment they have no way of knowing whether the person is a guest or a bum or a robber.

No broker fees vs. going under contract below FMV to induce the assignment seems like a wash, no?