Knowing ways you prevent maintenance up front on the rehab is very valuable info.

There are steps you could take to prevent this, which generally involve lying and scheming, but the only true protection is to close and resell. 

Yep and that prevents those instant offer companies from entering for the time being. :)

It is completed by the tenant.That prevents the buyer or tenants from taking action later, falsely claiming that you or the buyer are holding deposits or that the terms of the lease are different that they really are.

He charges 100 each time and it prevents any clogged gutters.

They will also report it to the credit reporting agencies which may prevent another Landlord from being suckered by them.

When I worked in retail, I got to know the loss prevention guys.

With regards to a Palm Springs Vacation Rental, there are a lot of laws in place to prevent new vacation rentals in Palm Springs.

The PM is the same company that did the rehab and found the tenant, if they made mistakes in those areas what's to prevent the PM from hiding it from the investors.Convince me I'm wrong.   

So what would a reasonable person foresee as potential damage and what reasonable steps would be taken by that reasonable person to prevent that damage.That's where it ends.