Focus on what the animal is trained to do for the applicant.Here is a form for an assistance animal, which is a lower criteria then service animal:FORM TO REQUEST AN ASSISTANCE ANIMALWe are committed to granting reasonable accommodations when necessary to afford persons with disabilities the equal opportunity to use and enjoy our rental properties.Under the Fair Housing Act, a person with a disability is defined as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.

Obviously the owner needs someone to solve their problem, but they are also not physically there.Suggestions?  

@Jillian Sidoti I believe donations. they used examples such as instead of buying physical wedding gifts or baby gifts, to just donate to their home funding page instead. 

Curious if anyone has some advice or ideas of practical steps to take to make that less stressful for me now and of course easy for her to deal with should the worst happen.A physical list of numbers/people to call such as tenants or handymen?

The tenant says hes been in NY dealing with a child custody cast.

During which time you would have had to demonstrate continuous and unopposed, or “open and notorious,” physical possession of it.

Eventually, when you have a large enough commercial line, you will consolidate all of your smaller lines, and you will then use physical liquid cash and your one large line to put yourself what I enjoy calling a "Position of F*** you".

Andrew Pettit , it depends on the length of the Escrow and contingency period you agree to with the seller.In the state of California during a 30 day Escrow for example,you have 17 days for an inspection period to walk away from the deal without a financial penalty .However,to be competitive in obtaining investment properties against seasoned investors with cash,you would have to offer a very short contingency period like 3 to 5 days to convince the sellers to sell it to you.Many professional investors with access to all cash are actually willing to buy the property with zero contingencies and accept the risk of a bad physical inspection just to win the deal.

There are wireless systems now that record straight to the Cloud which gives you access to the video thru Internet...They are fairly easy to install but some Landlord do hire installers to physically install cameras and help w initial setup..Although the cameras won’t stop them from doing the crime it might deter them once they see property is being monitored.

Looking at ALL deals you can is how you get better (I don't necessarily mean physically looking but at least checking them out online etc then check against county records, also online)The last deal I bought (last month) was a 7 unit building just south of Portland OR.  3 bed, 1.5 bath in GOOD condition, but needed some updates.  4 of the units were rented at $900 a month, 3 at $750.