State on the form to your tenant, that the ESA cannot be a dangerous breed due to insurance restrictions, list the breeds.

It's hard to make a mistake and lose your whole investment like you can in the stock market.  

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If presented with this situation, I would formally ask my insurance carrier if there was an exception for service or ESA animals.Here is a case where a landlord was prosecuted for refusing an ESA animal (however, no breed was brought up, so this is a little different):https://archives.hud.gov/news/2015/pr15-050.cfm My advice is to tread carefully. 

I have been reading as much as I can in my free time, books on real estate from Robert Kiyosaki, etc.

-require vet records-require spay/neuter-restrict breed and size if you so desireI would also worry about the ability for the tenant to care for the dog.

Additionally, although I can in no way profess to be an expert, I took classes in law school about real estate transactions and finance, and so some parts of the process are not totally foreign to me.In general, I'm fascinated by the prospect of being my own boss and developing a growing side business that could one day independently sustain me and my family.

I also have a lingering worry that the monthly application will just wind up breeding hardy groups of resistant pests.

You have to be a special breed to want to do property management.

You can find quit claim deeds filed in most land record offices, you can in all offices but perhaps with more effort.If you have some basic letter that says "I see you were recently granted an interest in real estate......if you have an interest in selling this property....." type of thing.Quit claims are used in estate issues, divorce settlements, used to convey property as a deed-in-lieu-of-foreclosure to a lender (think private lender), in estate planning and in instances where one contributes property to another entity and they are often misused.