The operating agreement should spell out who is responsible for what (i.e. your role is day to day operations, his role is to cough up the dough and that's it).

Important that you have the parking clearly spelled out in the lease.

This will also spell out all the rules and regulations to continue to qualify/ avoid eviction.Instead of using fear of eviction as a means to keep tenants in line, create a cultural shift to address underlying problems instead.

However, the home has some unfortunate history with it (not going to spell that out here but previous owner died there). 

I'd draw up a partnership agreement that spells out the terms. 

I have a nice charcoal grill.Easier to clean, I never run out of gas (renters are responsible for charcoal) I hate cleaning my gas grill at home, to many parts to disassemble.When your on vacation you have more time to relax and a charcoal grill just feels like vacation.Good thing I have spell check, I had charcoal spelled 3 different ways.

You have to spell that out clearly in your lease agreement.

Make sure both of you have skin in the game and expectations clearly spelled out.

Again, stress to them, your policy will not pay for their loss.The big advantage for you is the will have Liability coverage (I would spell out a minimum limit such as $300,000).

Now there are around 2-3 ideas that I learned from his books that I find valuable and did impact how I think about money, but those could have been spelled out in 2-3 separate paragraphs rather than multiple books that rehash the same thing over and over again.