No matter how relatively cheap houses become in the next 2-5 years, those with chronic unemployment or underemployment over that time span, will not be buying them.

The seller is ill with a chronic condition  and cannot travel to sign any documents so I'm a little stuck.

The seller is ill with a chronic condition  and cannot travel to sign any documents so I'm a little stuck.

I think it's a mistake to ignore or dimiss those tenants that are chronic complainers and those that are constantly thoughtless and/or worse rude to neighbors (garnering a steady stream of complaints) as not a landlord problem.

I’d only subject a tenant to this play if I received some chronically late paying, existing tenants in a new acquisition of a property.

In working with insurance companies I've found that they rarely cover mold issues as they consider it long term or chronic in nature and their policies generally only allow flames of acute or emergency situations i.e. plumbing breaK or leak, wind, fire, tornado, earthquake, hurricane, etc.You may think it's a good deal now but once you start digging into it it's like a dentist digging into a cavity.

I agree that some tenants are chronic complainers and will make your life difficult no matter what you do.

A chronic key loser that's calling me at 2 AM a couple times a week?

We have a chronically ill child, insurance is sky high, we cannot afford them to leave us with two mortgages. 

That said, me being the chronic optimist I am, I'm glad I came around to the idea of investing now instead of right before retirement.