Are there other precautions you can take, like owning the properties under a business versus your personal name?

There are precautions you can take for potential leaks. 

Besides the normal precautions with having a tenant do work in exchange for rent, would you advise installing granite in a rental?

This will only get worse as they get older.Being a hybrid with leather interior, hauling anything is pretty much an extreme pain because i have to take so many precautions to avoid cosmetic damage.

I would hope that you will take some precautions to make sure that will probably not happen but the seller needs to know it is a possibility. 

I shared on this post earlier and when it popped up again it reminded me that since the last time I posted, I started considering the cost/benefit ratio of security precautions.

For you seasoned flippers, what are the major items to consider when investing in a home that had a major interior fire, where the structure is still standing? Is this an investment where paying land value is the targ...

They are already settled in and probably not going any place soon, so I am sometimes open to this, especially when I'd probably have to repaint and even re-floor anyhow at turnover and when they have some demonstrated knowledge and competence in painting and know the precautions (i.e., quiz them some and if they don't know how to tape and tarp or had not painted some,I would probably not let them so it but maybe volunteer to do a wall myself or let them hire a pro).

We've already done a background check on the potential and have met them before showing space as a further precaution.  

Mine says that I'm going to take common sense safety precautions - locking doors and windows at night, but that if a thief comes in the dark of night (or while nobody is on site) and steals something it is not my fault.That being said, I've got a whole darn warehouse where fixtures get stored until the day they get installed... for precisely this reason.