Why ruin a great chance to make a deal with a weak link in your efforts?

Nonetheless, in this day in age anything can happen and countless lives ruined (dead and living) in the blink of an eye!!

Instead of letting the bad apples ruin the opportunity, learn how to mitigate the risk and protect yourself while expanding your pool of available applicants.Or you can be a carmudgeon like @Thomas S. and lose the opportunity at additional income. ;)What I do:1.

By doing Your due diligence You can avoid other problems (like liens that will remain in the property and problems in the foreclosure process), but your rehab costs may increase (example: Got a property that I - and a contractor, believed had an HVAC in good condition, and turned out to be ruined.

I find it gross and you are talking to someone who bought a house out of probate because some lady with 4 kids went to the doctor sick, found out she had Stage 4 cancer and died less than 90 days later. 

I was contemplating renting it too, but it was just fully remodeled and everyone was whispering in my ear that it would get ruined and I'd need to put in equity to remodel it again.

If everyone tried to withdrawal money in the same month, it would ruin the company. 

When he became ill with pancreatic cancer and passed away in 2020, my sister and I executed an asset sale with the help of a business broker and leased the property to the purchaser of Larry's Auto Clinic, a man named Larry, if you can possibly believe that!

When he became ill with pancreatic cancer and passed away in 2020, my sister and I executed an asset sale with the help of a business broker and leased the property to the purchaser of Larry's Auto Clinic, a man named Larry, if you can possibly believe that!

I've also read about how adding a bedroom can potentially ruin the 'flow' of a house, so I would like to be mindful of that.