Preventative maintenance (things like gutters or removing/trimming trees).4.

There will be assets that need to be added to the trust as time goes by and perhaps removed from the trust as time goes by, and perhaps a divorce situation might take place requiring trust adjustment- as well as after passing advice and guidance that will probably be needed by whomever the trustee is at the time.

I'd take care to remove valuables just in case.Call the listing agent (and their broker) and let them know that you need 24 hours' notice for any showings and the people must be accompanied-not left alone.

If you ask the manager to justify a fee and he starts hemming and hawing, move on or require them to remove the fee.

Jack hammer, remove, pour new floor.

I intend to pay all cash, thereby removing the requirement for flood insurance. 

We rent single family homes, so we have a conversation about yard maintenance, snow removal etc - have you don't this before, do you have the tools etcI also bring up house cleaning questions, by telling them we had a tenant who did not own a vacuum cleaner, did not know how to run a dishwasher, had a mess in the basement etc - and then see how they respond.That is a non-offensive way to talk about house cleaning and you'd be surprised how different the responses are.

I believe it would be irresponsible to remove Lane's ability to post to the forums, as that would remove his ability to defend himself.

Lender has risk if as @Chris Seveney mentioned buyer puts a second behind your first  this causes the first lender to have to go through a full foreclosure to remove the second in a default scenario. 

Just remain wary of the potential consequences of operating in an anti-landlord jurisdiction: vacancy taxes, potential vacancy control, inability to remove deadbeat tenants, etc.Coincidentally, Jesse Vasquez posted "why your MTR isn't renting" on YouTube yesterday.