All it takes is one "Professional Tenant," to destroy everything. 

Borrower shall not commit waste or destroy, damage or substantially change the Property or allow the Property to deteriorate, reasonable wear and tear excepted.

I am hoping to get into the home and check it all out before starting the eviction process so that nothing gets destroyed.

My friends and family caution me that what I'm about to do will ruin my life but I don't want fear of the unknown destroy a potential future avenue ahead for me.

It's called the Albany Land Bank and has a catalog of homes that they took possession of mostly because they had become so distressed they were destroying the neighborhoods.

The seller was renting it out previously and the renters completely destroyed the home.

I'm talking stealing appliances, destroying everything in sight, the works.

That destroys value - it just adds cost and a middleman to the end deal.Jim.

I would not destroy the window irrespective of the warranty, as there's not a whole lot to the frames of vinyl windows. 

But before they get it rented again, the copper thieves get there and rip and strip all plumbing, all wiring, destroy the AC condenser unit and all in all cause $10,000 in damage, which the owner needs to pay to get the house re rented and they often pay someone to put the house back together again to go into a quick placement of a new tenant and get back into scenario #1 or #2 again.Along about the time the other $15,000 in reserves run out, they decide they have to sell, but the house that they paid $15,000 for has all the damage to if from the first or second break in and is no only worth about $6,000 . . . so as one of the first reply's said . . .as a new investor going into an out of state market with $15,000 to buy a house  . . . at least in Kansas City . . . save yourself the heartache and head ache and set your money on fire.Or save it and do something else . . . .