.), but the risk is high too in the short term rental market.How about the long term rental market in the same area?

Better to kill a deal than risk that, if they are aware of it.

@Josh Stack -- you bring up a good point about the risk of the property not appraising.

@Frankie Woods, In my opinion it really depends on your risk situation, whether you are accredited/nonaccredited and how much you are putting in.

We came up with that offer to include in those risk factors.

I am considering increasing my home insurance deductible from $1500K to $4000K. Will save me about 37% annually from the quotes i received. My thought is most damage will fall under that $1500K #. If a major event doe...

You already have a tenant who is demonstrating responsibility, so it is more assessing the risk of the person moving in.

The cost is $295 and if they don't reduce your taxes by more than $295, you get back the difference (i.e. there's 0 risk for hiring them and only upside).Seems like a win/win proposition and reviews online look solid.

I know apartments help mitigate some of the risk because it is cash flowing each month while the overall appreciation can go up and down so its a little bit safer to buy something than it might be a SFR.Any thoughts on this?

Some are worst than others and therefore some are highly desired because there's little to no flood risk.