Clean-up and remediation can be extremely expensive and may require ground water monitoring (annually or quarterly) for years. 

Having one more thing to monitor and develop rules of use for...In the end I can't justify all of this just to keep a tenant happy.Any thoughts on how to respond to my tenant in a way where I don't have to say "NO", but rather help them reason their way into thinking it is a bad idea as well?

We moved to the area in January of 2011 to purchase/manage a 250+ unit storage facility in Rathdrum (North Idaho Storage) I have been monitoring the market since then. 

What business wouldn't monitor and manage its balance sheet?  

I fly back and forth but not being there everyday to monitor my first home can make the process very tedious.

Another interesting thing is that while Google may know how many people are interested in RE at any given point in time, you also would be able to get similar data by monitoring blog page views and number of newbies joining BP on any given day.

Then monitor listings, rental prices, for sale/rent signs and ads for those areas.Once you get familiar, expand out to 20 mile radius.  

By not monitoring the note at a minimum of monthly, he could have foresaw the foreclosure, filed it first, making him senior lien holder, and could have then made payments on the first while he arranged for sale of the property.

As far as cameras go, I know here in Baltimore the police can install cameras on top of light poles with a bright blue blinking light to monitor.

Yes, I will definitely check out the pod-casts and monitor the forums.......Thanks much, Steve