.- Garage (moisture stains, wall damaged, laundry hose bib leaking), partially converted to a room.

., to the face of someone who leaned down to pet it), a slice from broken glass, or a freak accident which renders someone quadriplegic, can and has, resulted in claims in excess of many insurance policies, and in the last example, led to a claim of close to fifty million. 

Have an additional umbrella policy on the property to cover excess liabilities and lawsuits. 2.

Absent creditor claims in excess of your offering price, you should be successful.

I'm confident that one day soon my BP profile will say "over 500 flips" but I think I'll shoot for excess of 5000 rental units!

Excess idle capital you can put to work in income producing properties. 

An eviction will likely cost you in excess of $5K so if you can get them out for less than that, it might be worth a try. 

If there's a language barrier and hearing barrier, plus the "old and I don't give a damn" barrier, a social worker or family member in the home are usually the only people that can resolve such issues without an excess of emotion.

The honest thing would be to move utilities immediately but the seller refused us a walk through (he just said I can walk out of the deal if I want but he has no time for a walkthrough) and I figure why - excessive humidity in the basement which he cleaned up quite well at the original showings.

If you are on the edge of a desert, it makes little sense to sod with {non native} grass species which require moisture levels above and beyond what Mother Nature supplies.Even way up here in the north east, we do not landscape our properties with non-native species - particularly non-native grass species and ornamental shrubs - many of which come from warmer climates further south and can be high maintenance given our winters and their lower resistance to {native} weeds and insects.