Tenants often insist on being home when anyone comes to their unit. 

You can certainly insist on specifics prior to closing.  

Except for the parts that will.Seriously, if you're going to insist that we all include these statements on every post, BP is going to get even more clogged than it already is.Additionally, BP is a forum, and encourages discourse.  

I insist on a prescreened free application before I will bother my current tenant with a scheduled showing.

What's the point of insisting on special circumstances here?  

You can also insist on renter's insurance and have your LLC or yourself listed as the additional insures.I do not allow smoking in my units all, it greatly increases the cost to turn them and remove the foul odors and yellowed walls.Do beware of any discounts as an employment discount is definitely discriminatory.

If you don't like something, insist on a change or don't sign it.My preference is to use smaller property managers who are directly responsible for their work and do not outsource it. 

I just went through financing for a personal home and the bank insisted on seeing all current leases o our properties and refused to give me credit for the tenants with expired leases even though they were paying M2M. 

@Michael HassellI send out invoices from my quickbooks account and my tenants pay by ACH transfers.I get alerts by email every time the payments hit my checking account.Seamless.One tenant is old school and paranoid and insists on mailing checks per lease.That's fine.She mails her checks to my POBOX.

*Leave $35-45 bottle jacks in place on top of new footers for adjustment in the event of settling (if someone insists on putting PT wooden posts in the dirt ---- DON'T!).