The vast majority of our rentals (SFHs in DC proper) are unfurnished, and we advise owners that that's the best way to go.

Is he telling this to the tenant and never served proper notice back then? 

If analyzed and assessed properly, it can validate your ultra-conservative income and expenses. 

Then they start lending, but only on deals and borrowers they have fully vetted and only with proper forms documents and procedure.Sometimes our passive investors stay to learn from the speaker, and I have found that our more successful passive lenders do stay.

I mainly do mod and manufactured home listings. 

While I haven’t gotten anything under contract yet, I’ve managed to land a handful of leads on currently occupied rentals in Detroit proper, Iowa, Indiana and Pennsylvania.

InsuranceWe need to insure on the LLC's name or in our name - depending on what we decide on the title.Should I seek products tailored to short-rentals like Foremost or Proper through Lloyd's of London?

If you buy while still in San Diego then you still have the chance to take care of this and that and get proper management in place.

Now if you are going to the manufacturer and claiming to buy 200 widgets, sign a contract and can't kick in the $200.

If they are new to the game then dig deeper into their property management background and see if it passes the smell test.As for questions, the basic business stuff like insurance, are they properly licensed, have a company formed properly, their rates, the timeline to do repairs, their experience with collecting rent from tenants like yours, etc.