Hello BP, I way driving and saw this burn out and heard you can buy these and restore them. 

Two years ago the fire next door left a good amount of smoke damage.

We've had to make some silly repairs of damages at our expense that were obviously tenant caused in order to get our rent checks, but that's part of the section 8 game. 

Make sure unpaid bills, damages, anything else is additional rent.

I still believe that the tenants themselves in lower end units will cause more damage, wear, and tear on certain aspects of a property.

Note, even if insurance pays for all the damage your property suffers, you still lose.

Tenants cannot have an excuse that I am not paying rent for last month or not paying for repair and deduct it from security deposit(who knows what all other damages they have?).

And not a coincidence that the people that do damage the property are usually the offenders.

Most of the time it's safe to rent to a military person or family but there are many military people who have never rented a home before or will cause some damage due to negligence or inexperience.Obviously military people can move between units, even on the same post, but it helps to at least have a starting point.

We gutted and renovated a kitchen, bathroom, and restored the homes original hardwood floors.