Tenants are not able to waive certain rights that they are given by landlord tenant laws.Essentially a clause like that is like me writing a note granting someone to murder me.

@Billy Rogers  one of the great mysterys of lifefor me I have never even had a 30 day late in my entire credit life  40 plus years.yet I struggle to have a fico above 730 or so.I have no installment debt.. and only two credit cards  AMEX and VISA both paid in full monthly for the last 30 years. what I do have though is mortgages on rentals.. and that is what drags me down.

Cops get away with everything, including assault, battery and murder, and don't even lose their jobs over their criminal behavior.

[Sorry for double post: solved the mystery of the @mention after the fact]Thanks for your help and insight everyone!

Who here thought he was talking about a murder scene before opening this thread?

@Ned Carey To add more mystery to all this, it seems like the title insurance company is more than willing to give me insurance!

I would think that a seller would want to talk about his properties and not be so mysterious and sort of shut down.

My mother was murdered in 1996 ....

mysterious disappearance.  

Now, its what some call a "war zone" but I don't like too much to simply plaster that label all over the place, even if its "high crime" according to even our local paper's "crime map", "murder map" etc because what's interesting is you will find some blocks that live up (or really down) to those terms, dudes hanging out all over, checking me out to see if I'm there to buy "something" from them, etc but then you'll find other blocks that will have many well cared for homes on that block or blocks and as it turns out, many long term owner/occs or long term renters and you just have to go and scope it out to see each area.