If you look at cities that have auto plants (US manufacturer or related to one) you will see falling employment.

There was a very large lawsuit with the manufacturer and the material was used pretty heavily throughout the region.So, some disclosures are going to be more common in the regions.I saw a few earthquake disclosures when doing deals in CA.John Corey

At some scale, you can afford to start protecting against a wider range of threats.Good point!

A better idea would be to work with your PM to develop the survey, and then tabulate and review the results, again keeping in mind the various motivating factors.As to a survey format, ask questions that can be answered with a simple yes/no, or 1-5 scale that can be easily and clearly checked off.

Rent is 1.7%.So, I think you expectations for cash flow have to scale with the rent.On the other hand, I can certainly see that every tenant is a certain amount of work, regardless of the rent.

As many suggested, I am considering large scale property management.

The benefit being that while you may only have one loan in foreclosure in a particular state, we handle and refer out to attorneys hundreds per month, per state, gaining economy of scale, and let's face it, our foreclosures will get done faster than someone sending 1 to an attorney.

These are on large retail refurbs ($2m+)On smaller scale SFR refurbs I have done, I pay each sub upon completion.

However, if I go 35 minutes down the road, there is a smaller city with quite a bit of manufacturing, distribution, industrial type jobs.

Also, they expect small scale landlords to be much more lax when collecting rent and/or evicting.