You are absolutely presumed guilty until proven innocent and don't even think about getting discovery.  

At least get in the ballpark and using the Commercial Offer to Purchase contract, use the Approval of Inspection contingency to allow renegotiation of the price upon actual discovery of issues.

Your story sounds like one of those shows in the Discovery Channel about final frontier ;)  In the Bay Area, we call 50 degree freezing...haha!  

Matthew, I'd love to hear what you discover.  I

Your other option is to discover high motivation before anyone else, and take decisive action upon discovery.  

First, you must do a thorough tenant screening and discovery before you rent to someone.  

So yeah, I'm trying to be my own risk manager and the first step is discovery of understanding what the typical uninsurable risks are. 

I understand both sides of it.Sometimes regardless of what people are told they have to go through the process of self discovery and reaching their own conclusions about the effectiveness or NOT of certain techniques used for investing.The reason bandit signs are not talked about much these days is they have fallen out of favor in many parts of the country.In some areas there might be an ordinance against stationary signs but not moving ones or having a person hold a sign on a corner for so many hours etc.

@Ray B.I love the self-discovery story!

Thanks for the info Jon - I heard of that in Colorado as well - there seems to have been a discovery of oil offshore the south east coast of Jamaica and some developments have been sprouting these past few days.