If the numbers work out, and your concerns are more about any "surprises" you may find, why don't you hire an inspector to take a look, bring in some contractors to give you rehab estimates, bring in other local investors to get their opinion of the deal, etc.Proper due diligence should alleviate most -- if not all -- of your fears...if it doesn't, then trust your gut and walk away...

Hi Sage,The people that you end up making a deal with usually have some type of problem that they are trying to alleviate by selling their property.

@Joe Gore , or maybe it's an experienced landlord who has created a way to alleviate more tire kickers in his market.

It would alleviate the double-posting.

However, technology today can alleviate most of the extensive work of yesteryear.

Since I would only run the credit check on an applicant who passes the first "basics" this would help alleviate the need to return fees to several applicants who never get that far in the process. 

The practitioner would need to provide documentation that each support animal alleviated some symptom of the disability."

If there is a problem, you can say you were there and tried to  alleviate the problem.

Thank you everyone for your responses @Gino Barbaro @Stone Teran @Robert Melcher @Michael Noto Bill Schrimpf The big call out here is being more specific in my leases - going forward I will be adding a few additional items and hope that will alleviate some stress.

This allowed him to cut his costs and alleviate financial pressure.