Originally posted by @Mike S.

LA City here~How do you market your rental to insurance companies directly for temporary home placement?

It varies a lot and depends on the vintage of the property and your tenant base. 

If you have a road maintained by the HOA then set aside for that in reserves. 

Let's say there's 3 properties in a 1-mile radius with 5b/3b, but one is a foreclosure and the other 2 are regular conventional sales.If you're doing a comp for your subject (4th) property, do you have to take the foreclosure one into consideration?

So, if deadline not met, we will send our people to handle.4) Vacant properties are easier to deal with, but we still require:- Owner must sign a Hold Harmless to indemnify us against any potential lawsuits relating to the work their contractor is doing and add us to contractor's insurance.--- Another lawsuit from a prospective tenant that slipped during a showing and when they grabbed the handrail, installed by owner's contractor, it collapsed and person injured.- Since we're not really in full control of the property, the Hold Harmless also indemnifies us against anything that goes missing at the property and squatters.We get asked/told to do all kinds of crazy stuff by owners, who either don't care what happens to us or haven't really thought everything through.Hope this addresses your question.

It's a range and depends on the property type, location, end condition and rental strategy. 

The capital required for Denver, and limited cash flow makes it a tough market to get your next one.

I know people who do this and I do not believe there are issues with it, but speak to an attorney and they should probably notify the company if they are an employee of that company that they are doing this.

I would do it even if I sell far outside the 18 month window.