Each tenant also signs a lease agreement for added security. 

Go to Etsy and search for "rental property tracker," and you will find hundreds of nice spreadsheets to track 10-20 rentals, usually for under $10.Software has extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

(that CA so ignorantly enforces)...Not sure if any of that makes since...it's was just a thought...what are yours  Yes you want them to sign their rights away to avoid an eviction process.

If there are things set up in the back to sell, that's a bad sign.

We are almost done and I flew out last weekend to take a look and hoped to sign off on the project and send the final payment.

(this is called premium pricing)Keep in mind, if you refinance a house as owner occupied for the lower rates, you are signing a new 1 year occupancy agreement so you need to stay in that house 1 year post refi before you buy your next primary. 

FL is now basically going socialist by offering state-sponsored tax-funded insurance to replace the private insurance carriers who don't want to loose money any more.Home prices are also interesting: when the first row of houses gets washed out by a storm surge, you have for sale signs pop up in the second.

Quote from @James McGovern: I no longer entertain buyers agents from CaThere can be many bad players in any transaction. 

Adding to this - any insurance agents here who can take the time to walk me through options rather than just send me a quote then harass me to sign pls message me :) 

Then there are other items that are negotiable in terms of marketing to get the place rented or at time of signing lease between the two parties.