I take steps like tenant selection and good property upkeep.If I were doing short-term operating in RE through rehabbing and flipping (don't see the diff) I would do an LLC and elect to be taxed as an s-corp.  SE

My buddy's wife got possession of the house after the police were done - had to do some painting, replace carpet as the ex bf was nasty - don't think there was much remediation needed where the victim died other than new carpet as it wasn't a "messy" death and the corpse didn't sit there long.Anyways sorry for the gory details - but it was publicized on local media - address wasn't highly publicized however I guarantee every neighbor around knew what happened. 

The corpses of leveraged transactions can still be seen in houses that are unoccupied or even unfinished for several years.And actually I don't think we're that far apart, and I may be unfairly grousing at semantics.

Several had people who died in them and the corpses were there for some time per the neighbors, some had no wiring or plumbing.  

No one wants to waste your time if you are using a bad lender that will write a preapproval letter for a corpse, then screw up the closing.

1Go to Home Depot 2 buy a family pack of D Con rat poison. 3 Pickup their corpses 

That's basically how they're playing "weekend at bernies" with the corpse of the stock market.

The title is clean.That's where you hear about people buying expensive properties for trivial amounts like $5000, when these properties are obviously worth much more.It's also where you hear about the not-so-lucky buyers walking into the property and finding the former owner's rat-gnawed corpse rotting on a couch in the living room.

HAHAHAThis is like trying to buy life insurance on a corpse. 

Now, my old friends over there think I'm a prophet.Pittsburgh is dying, but there is definitely money to be made off its slow death throes, and the corpse can be robbed after that.