The guests have a credit card on file and your policy should allow you to charge for damages or excessive cleaning.

The main reasin is for a better clearance of liability. with you editing a signed contract, that has a high Probability of letting a tenant be able to void the contract and it actually happening.

Now purchasing a home with cash is always good b/c obviously cash is king but also I think the part you might've missed is that, the money your utilizing on these home's won't actually be yours, but the banks or whatever institution you used to fix the home or make its value worth more.

Is it imperative that I actually go see the property before I close on it?

And one point the OP made about their credit.. only gurus talk about that.. by the time someone is days away from foreclosure their credit is trashed  having it actually go to sale will hurt a tiny bit .. but your not saving anything. 

You’d be shocked by how little actual screening many PMC’s do!

I actually live Pinellas County.  

You’d be shocked by how little actual screening many PMC’s do!

That is not actually the case. 

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