Pay attention to conversations where you uncover someone is a contractor or works in a specialized trade.

Even if you have a worse case scenario of HVAC failure and they do cover an HVAC, your tenant is without AC for weeks, you are on the phone with warranty company and contractor for hours (mostly on hold regurgitating the same story over and over again)your still out the $600 annual payment (probably several years wort), your paying the $500-600 for the “uncovered” Freon, and the headache of it all.

Earlier this month, my tenant uncovered water damage along the baseboards and lower walls of the master bedroom.

When you take a home down to the studs, you have opportunity to rearrange floor plans, and allows you to uncover and remedy any unknown issues with the home.

However, as I asked questions and guidance on how best to move forward, I uncovered questions that could have potentially cost me my entire investment.

<< -- Reed perhaps fails to understand that if someone has read 20 books on real estate investing, the 21st book will cover much of the same ground but in different words.Having read a great many books myself, I am indeed happy to uncover one new idea in the next book I read.As has been emphasized repeatedly on this site, the fundamentals of investing succesfully in real estate are relatively simple, but putting them into actual practice is often very difficult.

I don't like tile or uncovered hardwood floors throughout, especially in multi-units do to the noise factor.

Here are some great questions to ask to help uncover their why, motivation, and your negotiation leverage.Why did you reach out?

Just call him up and ask him to clarify these points that your screening process uncovered. 

One would not have uncovered the issues we are talking about here with any typical inspection unless they actually take down the fans to see it, or if the attic is accessible and they crawl all over it.The typically do my own inspection before purchase and as a rule I open at least one wall box and one ceiling box in each room in the process just to see what I am dealing with.