Health Department - septic plan (my soils engineer drew mine as part of his soils report, I used Bruin GSI out of Palmdale).4.

An Example addendum I use for Florida a Tenant friendly state "Security Deposits and Advance Rent, Security Deposit is Not for Last Month's rent, My ability to inspect the property, Smoke Detector battery maintenance, Mold (Tenant will use heat and A\C to prevent Mold). 

In all of these instances, the tenants experienced some type of traumatic event like a job loss, serious health issue or divorce -- things that the best tenant screening cannot catch. 

Most will stay in the home as long as their health and finances allow.

One of the benefits (or actually, consequences) of being a bit older (46) is I don't have a long horizon left to build up a retirement portfolio, so I'm inclined to start pretty hard (but with, I believe, manageable risk levels) plus I am in decent financial health overall from regular savings and traditional investing from my day job earnings over a long time period.

Take 6 week severance and then file unemployment or he could stay on but would lose insurance and health benefits, they would move him to part time hours, and he would have to take a reduced pay.

@Ron N  You are correct Ron now you add in your canadian pension and employment insurance it is 6.83% plus your 46.84% you are at 53.67%  The last time the canadian dollar was on par was Feb 2013 .It has slid 27.5%since My only point is that when one invests overseas currency and taxes are a consideration I would gladly pay extra taxes to enjoy your fine health care system and the many other social benefits of Canada now back to the conversation.

Battery will have to be changed occasionally.  

There are 3 main categories of standards that are considered requirements: *Safety - home should protect health and safety of occupants at all times. 

Too much uncertainty with health care and cap and trade legislation working through Congress, plus, expiration of Bush tax cuts next year could hurt growth.