When hiring for small jobs like this, do you have people sign any kind of waver in case of injury? 

Identification of what dog caused the injury is extremely difficult. 

FIRE, INJURY or DEATH!

I recently accepted an application for renters moving in, end of this month. They have not signed the lease or paid the deposit yet. That was supposed to happen by the end of this week but I have not sent them the le...

Most landlords will not provide the equipment over a concern that if a tenant sustains an injury while using, say, a lawnmower the landlord might find themselves being sued for such.Just as an aside, several years ago I provided several lawnmowers to tenants. 

Maintain adequate insurance to cover claims resulting from damages or injury caused by pet.Tenant agrees to indemnify, hold harmless and defend Landlord against all liability, judgments, expenses (including attorney fees), or claims by third parties for any injury to any person or damage to property caused by Tenant’s pet.Landlord reserves the right to revoke permission to keep the pet should Tenant break this agreement or provide false or misleading information.Landlord ___________________________________________________ Date __________Tenant______________________________________________________ Date __________ Tenant______________________________________________________ Date __________

First of all is to protect yourself with appropriate insurance in place, our brokedness was caused by injury.   2nd is not to go into extreme debt and have a substantial rainy day fund, because it will rain some day.  

The Tenant(s) agrees that they will indemnify, defend and hold the Owner harmless for any damage or injury resulting from building practices or materials that were used in the construction of this Property."

Worse still, if rates went up due to inflationary pressures, then to add insult to injury you would have higher oil or gas bills, higher water and sewer bills and higher insurance premiums and likely higher RE taxes, putting significant downward pressure on NOIs while facing upward pressure on cap rates.3-5 years from today people will be shaking their heads at the prices being paid today.

Also there are some injury issues with older gas heaters.In a smaller sub 1000 sqft house window units and space heaters can actually be more efficient for the systems costs.