If you charge a fee, the tenant will know it's non-refundable and therefore they have no incentive to try and earn it back.

.), as well as been told by many non-investors that mold is a "nightmare" and to stay away. 

So I am 4 weeks away from closing on two duplex apartment buildings, however, the insurance company that my contractor had builders risk with decided to not renew the insurance policy.  No claims have happened and the...

Today its guys or gals just throwing up a non descript ad on Craigslist with no pictures, very little information and no real way of contact them except through the CL email system. 

I'm assuming this is referring to whether or not I need to convert the property from Homesteaded (which it currently is, since it is my primary residence) to non-homesteaded.I asked my contact at the city if I had to convert the house to non-homestead, but she wasn't sure. 

The exception to this was a group of non communicative tenants, i inherited after taking over a property they didn't respond to any posted notices, phone calls or messages requesting information to resolve issues so that process moved pretty quick into eviction, but that's not the norm.

Most of the time, they may verbally tell you a ballpark of the repair cost withing their knowledge if there is not specialized items.  

Crazy idea, Consistently late, If the cure or quit did not prevent repeated late payments the tenant should already have had their lease non renewed or been evicted.

@Megan RandolphThe closest is buy a non performing note, get it reperforming then sell a partial to get your equity back to reinvest in another deal and you will also keep payments on the back end.Example, buy a $30,000 UPB non performing loan that is paying $400/month with 120 months remaining 10% interestYou buy it for $15k, they start reperforming then you sell 15,000 worth of payments at 10% to investor which may be 60 months (numbers not verified and for example purposes).

Steve, you should also have Hired and Non-owned Auto and strongly consider EPLI and Cyber.