As a construction inclined guy myself, I’d say keep them away from harmful dusts, or poorly ventilated areas with wet paint and find them things they can clean or trash they can clean up etc.

There is no harm in listing it high & see if you get bites right away.

Don't be scared of the dead, it is the living that can do much more harm to you.

Again, I don't think there is a harm in talking to lenders now to understand what you are looking at, but I wouldn't spend too much energy getting pre-qualified now, if you don't plan to start looking for at least another 6 months. 

Holding one or more properties debt free and out of harms way from mortgage risk while maintaining some debt so you can get the arbitrage of leverage.   

No harm in shopping, but I think you’d be hard pressed to find above 70%.

No harm in calling a lender and trying.

One to our guests to inform them and another to our Wildlife Exclusion company.

An additional consideration is that you've also got depreciation recapture on the investment portion and that too will be deferred in the 1031.Getting half the gain tax free gets you out of harms way a little bit. 

I don't take felonies, especially if they are for domestic abuse, violence, burglary, robbery, sexual offences etc. basically anything that might bring harm to my other tenants, my PM (wife), or anyone else.