The former covers the more routine added "wear and tear" from the dog, whereas the deposit covers excessive damage.  

Tenant shenanigans and property damage will be your biggest money pits.We bought a 2-family in Dogtown last year and it has been great. 

Identify your Ideal Mobile Home Park and location (type of park spaces, age of homes, city water, city sewer, 70% or more occupied, cities with high population, etc..)2.) get list and enter into excel.3.) find owners info, address, phone#, etc.. 4.) contact thru mailings, cold calling, etc..5.)

Then your tenant can sue you and recover lots of money in damages.

The rents are below market, the current owner does not charge any rent for outside parking spaces, the parking garage rents are below market rate, there is a beautiful unit being used as an office that could command $900/month, storage fees are not implemented, water is being paid by owner, etc.

Im checking a list in a county where I live and im already up to 3k how good are these lists, do the trees bear fruit or am a wasting Fiji water to see them grow?

Once unit is cleaned, apply any damages and unpaid rent against the security deposit and send her an accounting of the balance/bill.

Her current lease includes heat (and hot water which I plan on changing over too), so I can't just say "surprise, you're now paying for heat as part of your electric bill!"

The wires looks like they have been stolen and cut, the furnace and A/C are damaged with some of their internals taken.

If he wants to force you to sign a contract to buy as is then you can bet there is termite damage.