I have plenty of family members that I would not trust to take care of a property for me because of their poor work ethic and morals.

Moral... there are countless opportunities.

If you morally can’t make such choices get out of this business.

The moral of the story is that I would do it, but I wouldn't treat them any differently because of the lump sum rent payment.

I completely get what you’re saying I was moral or less trying to find out more about the Riverview area.

Probably not because it would be extremely hard to prove and not worth the time and effort so then it becomes more of a moral question for you.If I were weighing whether or not to stay in and bought a house because there was a relatively good chance that I would, then I would not lose sleep if my plans changed and I wound up getting out and moving before my year was up.

I for one would say that being a slumlord is never an appropriate goal for anyone who is a moral person.

Some keep the water in landlord's name and build it into the rent based on historic usage, and hope that water consumption is not too excessive over the historic usage.

There's more risk for new buyers, but not a moral issue. 

Moral of this story for me is never take no for an answer.