Will itemize for brevity purposes:- Mother wants to move to Saint George, Utah and get a home in a 55+ community- Me (son) has cash and wants to buy the home for her.

This property needed an extreme amount of clean up and haul away of items left behind.

Your renters will destroy these items and want you to replace them. 

The Detailed Engineering Cost Estimate Approach is typically used for the purchase of used property.SURVEY OR LETTER APPROACHOnce a site inspection has been completed and all components of a property have been determined, your specialist will send a survey or letter to the contractors or subcontractors to request they provide the cost of each of the items.

Garbage disposals are my most often replaced items. 

Go through each major line item and come to an agreement on what really needs to be done.

If, however, there are any gaps at all in any of the above items, even a gap so small a mouse can squeeze through, that tenant will exploit it and your life just became a 7th Level of Dante's Inferno.....:)

I look at every single item in the pro forma and imagine that it is complete BS, and see if I can challenge it.

These are just some of the additional items that will have a significant impact on carrier's rates, your premiums, and whether we start to see the insurance market soften anytime soon or not.

-When a tenant moved out, the management company refunded their security deposit but failed to account for damage, such as holes in walls and outlets ripped off the walls, leaving me with repair bills and also tenants moving in without the repairs being done.Stuff like this that is consistent and when I ask questions they are defensive, when I ask for more quotes for high ticket items they are defensive.