For me, it does no good to be covered for a fire caused by a lightning strike but if someone breaks in and lights the place on fire, you're not covered.  

and they viewed my property as a fresh start to their life and treated it as such - I screen all of my applicants on their individual merit and to blindly strike entire groups and categories of population from your applicant pool is not good business no matter what you believe 

I see REI as helping me strike that work-life balance while doing something new and exciting all the time.

Having said all that, I would just strike that out of the contract altogether.  

He was selling the home and currently had tenants living in it on a VERBAL month to month lease with no real annual written lease agreement (Strike 1 against us).

doesn't strike me as crazy.

, we can’t insure it w that roof” so as we say miike azam strikes again. $5,000 later I can get insurance on the house.

It doesn't strike me as that crazy when everyone on here talks about being creative about things. 

People are there to network and it won't be hard to strike up conversations and ask questions. 

.- We definitely overpaid for the property at the time as we were trying to strike a balance between somewhere we wanted to live and investment returns.