One simple trick is that if you are making the first call to a PM, GC or escrow company you are a bit more protected from bad actors.

It was a malicious act of vandalism.5) Life. 

You got a new tenant for a new property, and he left not because of any evil or malicious reasons on his part, but because someone broke into your property not once, but twice in one month shortly after he moved in. 

And I've only had to do that once and it wasn't due to malicious damage, it was amateurish 'improvements' to the property.

This is similar to D.C.’s Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act, or TOPA which became a way for D.C. renters to hold some homes hostage for high-dollar payouts and enabled renters to block sales until the law was reformed. 

Somewhere in there is likely to be a section called "Landlord/Tenant Act" or similar, and it will set out what is legal and illegal and basic codified responsibilities of both sides. 

With how large Berkshire Hathaway is as an organization and the sheer number of people they employee there is almost certainly bad actors.

a pretty bad picture for the scenario you describe:Your non-malicious handiman hurts himself in on your property by mistake and sues you.  

Proving the case in court would be very difficult, because I did not have intent and did not maliciously do anything wrong. 

@An LamI think if the scam had caught you, you’d have to sue the title company for negligence for failing to keep the emails of the transaction safe and causing you to fall prey to a malicious actor.You would NOT be covered by FDIC but the title company might choose to cover you because they’d be very likely to lose that lawsuit.