No real rules of evidence.

We keep lots and lots of money in reserves for Murphy's Law when, not if it raises its ugly head.Seriously BPers, if anyone has differing factual experiences, based on evidence they have personally experienced doing what so am doing, and can prove they bought low, based on good solid leverage and cash flow in mind with a secondary goal of appreciation is the wrong thing to do, please give me your factual real fact based experience, since you have already been down my road I am travelling.  

Agreed on the screening but what specifics are in your tool box: how do you determine solid "ability" to pay and pay on time.Any credit report that doesn't have sporadic (and do they report these anyway) payments won't tell you if he tenant pays on time.What other things do you look at that gives you concrete evidence the potential tenant has been late paying.For example, the former tenant was late 3 times all of which they had to be hounded to pay.

From my understanding, they mostly just said, spend more money to prove that the structure isn't good but it was evident the foundation is cracking.

Or, sometimes a flash flood can happen, even in the desert, where there is no time for the water to be absorbed into the ground, it just flows on top of the ground.There's just too much evidence in the type of damage to suggest a future of water problems with this property, regardless of planting a tree line at the back of the property, unfortunately. 

Although she is older and MA tenants have a lot of rights, we were pretty sure we would have gotten her evicted based on the insane amount of evidence we have.Now - We cannot continue the eviction process because of the Coronavirus. 

Also once the tenants move out, provide them with the documented evidence (take photos of the trucks on the lawn) and tell them you will be taking them to small claims court.

What's the evidence that they're mentally disabled? 

I would talk to a lawyer, see what your options are, and in the interim start documenting everything (dates and times of ambulance rides, behavior, even video evidence) and building a case for eviction before offering cash for keys.   

Now that you mention it, I have no evidence to show that the county processed the separation, apart from the selling attorney telling me that.