CO (If required in your town) and permits, that is basically the town's way of saying that the property isn't condemned and won't be as long as you make the property habitable and bring it up to code.

My suggestion which may differ from others is you should let the seller know up front what your intentions are so that in the event you dont sell it then no harm no foul. 

I don't think it's a great habit to regard bids / estimates this way. 

That means even if you cancel a week into a three month policy you won't get a refund.If you're living in a habitable house and doing fixup a homeowners policy may be adequate. 

This is not tie up a house with no ability to buy it and if it doesn't sell no harm, no foul.

Not making rounds to collect cash rent, not being in the house while prospective tenants are, pepper spray, maybe I'm just overly concerned about not putting myself in potential harms way.Your tagging doesn't seem to be working.  

Look for something that is just habitable enough to live in but not something super dumpy that would be appealing to cash investors where they could get a steep discount.

I had a tenant with the same exact situation and she sent the papers, I let her break the lease with a 30-day notice.This is the least we can do for those who go on deployment and serve in harm's way!

I was under the impression that a landlord has to provide a habitable home before signing the lease, and if not they must fix the problems and homeowner is saying they weren’t aware of the repairs until a few days ago.

. ;)To give some perspective, more than half of those BP podcast guests have never lived as an investor through a RE downturn, and I wish them no harm, but they are so leveraged up to grow fast that I'd bet that half of those more than half will end up going bankrupt in the next downturn.