There are multiple reports of them approving claims but taking several weeks to pay.

Thanks in advance for your assistance. 

Additionally, I have a partner who's a Financial Advisor and would also be involved in this venture.If anyone knows of any promising businesses in this space, I'd greatly appreciate any leads or recommendations.Thanks in advance for your help!

These typically are not reported to credit bureaus and also do not affect your debt to income ratio which frees up your credit for personal loans that you may need in the future as well as does not limit you to the amount of loans that you can have as a buy and hold investor. 

I am a bit concerned about the quality of the schools in the area as I know that affects families staying long term in an area.Thank you in advance! 

If you think about AirBnB, it essentially acts as an escrow - a guest may book months in advanced and pay at booking, but the funds are not released to you until after check in.I would love landlords perspective from this community on if you would be open to using a trustworthy third party tool that offered this same service (ie. tenants pay whatever your deposit is to this escrow account, then 24 hours after check in it is sent to you).

The appraiser will mark the report "Subject to" and you will have to fix it and have the appraiser come back out to finish report which is called a "Trip charge" or cost more money.Unless of course you decide to go FHA 203K but those can be a nightmare of wasted time and stressful.

However, the self employment could (or could not) pose an issue depending on how much you pay yourself yearly and what you report on your tax returns.  

I want to do the right thing but I also want to know in advance which animals are on property and to be able to recoup cleaning fees.

Thanks so much for any responses in advance!