The first pillar is avoiding unnecessary and risky activities (don't drink and drive, insurance generally won’t cover your poor decisions) and take good care of your investments - these simple steps will help you prevent lawsuits before they even occur.

This will allow you to prevent a legal setback from resulting in liens on any other property.

This helps prevent waste.

On the flip side, if you find a good agent with experience, you will have a trusted advisor, a connection to other industry professionals and someone to guide you and prevent major mistakes. and BTW the buyers agent is paid by the seller. 

The first pillar is avoiding unnecessary and risky activities (don't drink and drive, insurance generally won’t cover your poor decisions) and take good care of your investments - these simple steps will help you prevent lawsuits before they even occur.

Remember this clause is to prevent people from biting off more than they can chew or neglecting to make the rehab as promised because they caught a better deal somewhere else.

Making sure it's warm enough at all times is of course the #1 way to prevent a bursting pipe as they usually burst when they have been frozen then thawed.

If they can not identify and it's still flowing they will turn it back off to prevent possible flooding inside of the home if there is a break somewhere.

Do what you can to prevent mold from taking root and becoming a hazard.

Nope, reos instituted this 10 years ago specifically to prevent what you are trying to do....tying up a property without the ability to buy.