Many people are gambling on the market.Fund managers are having a party with cheap money floating around everywhere as well.I'm very conservative and young, so if I have to wait until the end of the year or into 2014 for a correction to buy back in that's OK with me.

Things like that should be pretty minimal in the grand scheme.That's assuming the HOA in question has good financials and an adequate reserve fund, so if they do suddenly find out they need a new roof, they don't have to hit the owners with a big assessment, but that's a whole topic by itself.The real gamble is how long this guy is going to be around.  

Not sure I am thrilled with what others have encountered.  

And those looking for housing for winter quarter are thrilled to find you.Only advertise to grad students, preferably law students.  

Unless you're willing to gamble on anything you might find later, I'd run away.And I don't think it's odd to want a place inspected, even if you haven't seen it.  

Gambling?  

Unless you can afford to gamble on iffy applicants.Unless you absolutely can't find good tenants for your rental, and absolutely have no other choice but to accept sub-par tenants, don't do it.That said, you can add something like, "a combination of criteria may be considered on a case by case basis."

Then, you can only charge them for anything that was on the list that they did not do - or for damage that was not visible during the inspection or happened after the inspection.So, if you didn't do this, getting them to accept a deduction is a gamble. 

Tell her she'll have to tell her story to the judge, and you'll accept whatever the judge says.How much you wanna bet, she took out her rent money out of her checking account, so she couldn't use it to gamble with at the casino. 

I'm obviously not thrilled with my fridge being shot, but I'm glad the fridge took the bullet instead of a person.