I've noticed fewer groups of friends booking this year vs prior years and guests visiting family nearby has been the leading reason guests book for us.  

If someone were to be bitten and a court is examining the case, they may interpret this as an awareness that your dog is a danger (even if there is no record of violence in the past). 

It will bring you potential danger and other bothering issues.

The expensive coastal communities in SoCal--ie Malibu, Santa Monica, Venice, Newport Beach--probably only saw price drops of 15% and probably fewer foreclosures during the crisis.

So I would pay someone that amount to do it, but it would be more than that in my are if I could even find someone to do it all.On charging tenants for anything except legally defined damages (not wear and tear), that can also be penny wise pound foolish as a legal fees and damages in a small claims could eclipse any savings.It is a good question, and you want to be efficient, but I would focus in keeping the tenant longer term (for fewer turnovers) to save money as that turn around fee, if it encompasses everything, may be reasonable.

Unless they informed you about something dangerous, you didn’t attempt to fix it, and someone got injured due to your (or your property managers) negligence.Find out from your manager or your lawsuit papers) what the exact mentioned repairs were, and if anyone got injured.

It's a couple of blocks from a well-known dangerous neighborhood in NJ.

So instead of having say 5K per home set aside you may decide on 30K for the whole portfolio.What works for me personally is fewer bank accounts and rely on software to keep it straight.  

Also, the more and's you insist on having, the harder it will be for you to find deals that meet your conservative criteria (but the safer those fewer deals will be) ... at some point you won't buy anything, so there is a balance that needs to happen there which is fine so long as it is a conscious act of compromises.

The harder to find a seller the fewer other people that are willing to do that much work to track them down.