Be sure to do a thorough masking job before starting, all your outlets, etc.

For example a patch in one of our daughters rooms peeled off the wall two days within moving in on first year lease.

No cut ins, no masking, painting directly over grease.Originally posted by @Austin Mountain:I had a good tenant move out of an apartment and into another we managed.

Wow, I really wish I would have posted this and talked to all of you before I started peeling the paint.

Isolate your work areas: don't work in all the house at one time, if you are going to do the bath then mask it off with plastic and work only in there. 2.

VA guidelines require that “The surface requiring treatment must be thoroughly washed, scraped, wirebrushed or otherwise cleaned to remove all cracking, scaling, peeling, chipping and loose paint and then repainted with two coats of a suitable nonleaded paint, or:The paint shall be completely removed or the surface covered with a suitable material such as gypsum wallboard, plywood or plaster before any painting is undertaken if the paint film integrity of the surface needing treatment cannot be maintained.” 

The small square ceramic bath tiles are cheap but if and when they peel you will be doing it twice .

A few common items to be on the lookout for:  Look everywhere inside and out for peeling or missing paint and fix as necessary, test windows to make sure they open, can stay open, close, and lock (old wood windows may have problems doing this regularly or be stuck all together), review basement for any signs of standard black, non-toxic mold/standing water, make sure all stairs are cleared of tenant items (no bikes, boxes, etc.).   

., older roofs, peeling paint, etc.).

So you want to make sure there's no peeling paint there and that it's been primed very well and paintedAt least from my understanding, the worry is old paint peeling.