Chris, Thank you for your quick response, I was looking to do a different strategy besides mass mailing, and I can see how preventing a foreclosure from happening, that would be a direct lender collaboration that I would have to work on indeed. 

When I asked for clarification from my PM they said this clause only protects against something the tenant can control, which makes no sense to me since many pests aren’t preventable, they just happen.  

How do you prevent yourself from going through and rewiring the entire house when you only wanted to update the kitchen? 

Again, the complication of tax should not prevent you from investing if a deal makes sense. 

For control purposes, they rather not give out info to prevent collusions between bank officers and potential bidders and buyers.

Austin is super ridiculously sided with a demand that's planting roots here and living, low inventory and post-recession boom so you're going to get low cash flow and the possibility of high appreciation at the moment.

For Sewer Scope I often use Root Excavation or Alpha Environmental and have had good results with each of them. http://www.rootexcavation.net/ https://alphaenvironmental.net/Hope that helps! 

This isn't meant to be preachy but others might come across this post and wonder how to prevent it.The two biggest areas of concern here are...Your loan amount. 

I can certainly appreciate the legislators wish to prevent unscrupulous financial advisors from preying on the elderly and other non-sophisticated investors, but as we know, unscrupulous financial advisors will still find a way to operate within any rules that are set.

If it is not their fault (ie a tree root has grown through the sewer pipe which is why the toilet keeps backing up or something like that) then I would probably get the problem fixed after the 3rd time it happened.