It's very unlikely (when we see units broken into, often nothing even gets stolen,) but from a security standpoint this is something you would want to look for.Let me know if this helps!

She has a buyer that lost an offer on a house because her identity was stolen.

I don't want houses in areas that I'm afraid to be at or that, when its vacanty, the A/C may be stolen.

good reminder....ThanksHad appliances stolen from a home once and my business partner found them on craigslist and was set to meet the perp with weapons in hand.

I owned a bar with an apartment in the Dominican Republic when I went to college and It was so frustrating to be so far away and have to rely on local boots on the ground to relay data (in fact the manager spent all my cash for the project on a gambling Christmas cocaine party, ended up in jail and my boat got stolen by some Haitians trying to migrate to Florida but thats a whole different story).

Often, you'll have to deal with evicting occupants, changing locks, replacing stolen lockboxes, boarding up broken windows or doors, dealing with clean out, landscaping (towns are complaining about zombie homes).

(That leverage doesn't getting any higher).Can you imagine owning a store and selling merchandise that you don't own and never have to buy and you are making money?

So the investor can very much mitigate the down side by buying UP in the market place and getting those areas that are populated with the top end of the renter pool not the bottom end.I know you don't like to have to call your out of state client and let them know their house just got hit.. everything has been stolen the copper ripped out etc...

I dont even want to know what goes down when you put a stolen credit card through, and all the tricks they can play.

No crap areas we have to constantly stress about materials and tools being stolen.