I am not saying that you have a bad idea, but I do just want to make sure you are mentally prepared to take on this financial obligation. 

You can find an exhaustive collection of state eviction and security deposit laws on our parent company's website.

Keep in mind that sellers make a mental judgement as to the purchaser, so offers that they consider ridiculous will probably not get a response.

I normally put an exhaust fan over the range unless there was a microwave installed when I bought the property and it's obvious one was there before.  

I had figured that if someone got hurt, they would go after my home owner's policy and then once exhausted my umbrella.  

There's no mountains here to recalculate my mental map so I was feeling completely lost.

As a mental health therapist, I understand the value of empathic listening.

The mentality is that a landlord is a business person with lots of money and knowledge and the tenant is a poor idiot that knows nothing and can do no wrong.

I suspect were you bought  a 500 fico is average.. so your kind of stuck with that hand out mentality and tenant. 

@Allan C.I have the umbrella for the investments because there are a lot of tenants and moving pieces, but mainly because I had an apartment building that I leased out to mentally ill patients.