How can I verify this in the future when there is no power to the home? 

I'm early in my stages of RE investing. We bought our 1st home, saved some money and bought a duplex investment property. It's now time for us to buy a larger family home, but I don't want to sell my 1st home b/c I'm ...

You want to trust people of course, but it only takes one bad one to cause cleaning headaches as well as unhappy neighbors.  

It's just far better to bring the loan current or pay it off or file for a "clean and honest" bankruptcy to stop the foreclosure.

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But if the property is clean and well-kept—even if it’s nothing fancy—people are more likely to respect and take care of it.

Also there is a very powerful free version to get us started.

Not exactly sure where to look for this and have done some googling and asking around but don't have a clear answer for how folks have managed keeping the books clean and everything paid on time in a simple manner!

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As long as it was clean and in good shape it was going to move.