When you can truly speak to your tenants, understand your community, and can genuinely manage your properties with a little patience & love, you will have a true bond that can/will mitigate many of the negatives. 

I am genuinely interested in the timeline of the previous gentlemen’s investment venture because I know folks that tried and bailed, while others who have done it for decades successfully.

I would have been sure to get good details like the house number on the door, GPS location and clear face shots via 36x zoom just for dramatic effect.

It puts a bad name for those that genuinely want to support aspiring investors to start their portfolios. 

I did not mention that I take date and GPS time stamped pictures before move in and upon move out because I have learned NOT to tip my hand.

Politicians can talk all they want about more low cost housing, but they aren't being genuine. 

This page really is a community of investors genuinely looking to help other like minded people.

I should add, like others have stated, that like the second hand contact/inhalation of cigarette carcinogens, the ingestion of toxic spores would take quite some time to genuinely make you ill, aside from maybe a little runny nose or small headache...which brings me back full circle to the "myriad of other illnesses."

Really the main risk when inheriting tenants is that a) they have a long lease in place thats under market rent and b) the tenants are poorly managed and do not know the procedures of your company. 99% of the time people are genuinely nice and just want to continue living in their current home.

I was genuinely trying to figure out her "financial picture" to understand if she can afford the rent.