Mold, critters, and everything grow year round. 

I have been told that because of COVID, the tenant can essentially get away with denying access without repercussions.

Your debt to income is a ratio percentage of your debt against your current income...For example if your monthly debt total being mortgage, car loan, credit cards, personal loan, student loans ect... you would take that amount and divide it by your monthly income, and that will give you your DTI ratio.Example:$3000 debt / $7000 income = 42.8 rounded = 43% DTI This ratio is what lenders use to see how stable someone would be in paying back a home loan.

You'll want to make sure the big ticket items are in good shape for a resell in a few years.   

These are high ticket items that could make a good deal today a bad deal tomorrow.

This is a big ticket item.AC - you'll need 3-5 years of life remaining to engage insurance coverage.  

So maybe a co-syndicator or another partner in the deal so a good one doesn’t get away.

It is an area that is STR friendly and rental demand is fairly strong year round (a little soft early winter and spring).Looking for some general advice and some helpful answers to the a few questions.   

Before closing your attorney should have already obtained all of the relevant documents requested in your Attorney/Inspection period, such as leases, rent roll, invoices, service tickets, roof warranty info, collection statements to confirm all rent payments are up to date, copies of 12 months trailing water/sewage, gas, insurance, garbage and electric bills paid by Seller, assignment of all leases and transfer any security deposits to you.

@Eman Yazdchi, I had maintenance (regular) and capital expenditures (bigger ticket items like roof, A/C) as separate, but I get what you're saying.