Many good friendships have been destroyed going into business .

This way a busted furnace or open month between leases won't destroy your profits.

Also, granite looks gorgeous, but for a rental, you need to change your mindset to "what's hardest for someone to destroy?"...

Often this simply means "normal leasing" as it's for your average year lease.Anyway, my current tenant is paying the rent via an insurance payout due to their home being destroyed by fire. 

The identities of the parties involved have not been disclosed so that they can take full responsibility for destroying their own reputations.

VA loans use similar appraisal rules with the addition of a mandatory "wood destroying insect" inspection.If a home fails a USDA, FHA or VA inspection, the seller has to make the repairs or the sale will fail. 

Especially if it's a retail unit, if it's a destroyed shell of a house, then you get more room to negotiate, but if the current house condition is worth 140K, then buying at 70% of actual value is quite unlikely.

My ex-wife destroyed my credit while on my last deployment and I'm still building it up.

One house I looked at cost over $60,000 to fill and it destroyed the value.  

Get those good tenants in the property who will not be looking to potentially destroy your business.