Maintenance requests are handled online as well, if a tenant submits a maintenance request, you recieve an email with the address, unit, tenant contact info, and their detailed explanation.

You are going to want to talk to several professionals in your state for this one as it is a legal maneuver that amateurs or even professionals not familiar with the details of your situation on the internet probably aren't going to be able to help with much.

I suggest printing them out and making notes, highlight key items, etc on them to give you a better understanding of the laws.

I wrote an article about it a while back that might help: https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2014/12/23/investing-out-of-state-essential-items-to-vet/.

I'm always in favor of playing devil's advocate, but it's not possible to "force complexity...for the benefit of deeper understanding and analysis" when we have no details of cost, upfront cash, closing costs, rents and room for raising them, etc, etc. 

I don't know if the bank takes that option (line item) into account as the total insured amount.Anyone?

Without the whole story and all the dirty details we can't know why the tenant even thinks this.I take it from the info relayed that the sewage issue is still on going.

First item for you to consider is that you can have multiple VA loans at the same time, so long as you haven't used all of your VA entitlement.

Hi,  I have a problem I think I've solved but I lack the experience to work out all the details.

In an audit you can be found liable for use tax on those items.