Our broken sidewalk is angled towards the building, allowing water to go towards the foundation.  

One noted that the sidewalk out front was cracked, which anybody could see without paying for an inspection.

The front sidewalk is mostly what I'm concerned about.

We've yet to run into any major repairs that have had to be done, thankfully, they've typically been things we do ourselves on our quarterly walk-throughs for PM, or they've been convenience repairs like sanding and re-staining the decks and power washing the siding and sidewalks. 

Imagine if the dog now gets loose and attacks a child walking home from school on the sidewalk.

It's not like she's leaving mounds of dog crap on the sidewalk for weeks on (end.

I've rehabbed 150+ houses in various areas and it was the only place I ever had buyers complain that our scope of work was too incomplete -- things like not replacing ten year old roofs and sidewalks having small cracks.  

Full remodel in the last year. all new windows, doors, roof, soffit, driveway, sidewalk, stairs, fully finished basement, new hot water heater, new furnace. 

Your personal assets are not exposed.Say someone slips and falls on your broken rental property sidewalk, all they could sue you for is the equity held by that LLC and nothing more. 

The lawn is roughly the size of a postage stamp and I will need to shovel the sidewalk myself in the winter.The tony townhouse is 1970's tract-built garbage.