I went with the realtor to view the two houses I posted about in another thread.

Both houses have a half finished garage conversion which should probably be converted back to a garage, also one of the houses has a medium case of mold. Otherwise these are nice houses in a well kept neighborhood.

The realtor mentioned maybe not telling the insurance company too much about these problems, because they may never come out to check the house in the first place. However, since the house will have to be vacant for at least a month while these repairs are done, I''m concerned that there could be fire or something, and my insurance company could deny me, especially if they found out serious work was being done they didn''t know about.

Anyway, my idea was to insure through TAPCO while the repairs are done (similar to Foremost, but Foremost won''t insure in Florida). TAPCO will cost about 2.5 times more than normal insurance, but I'll just factor that into my offers.Then I'll go back to a regular insurance company once the tenant is in.

I guess what I'm asking is has anyone ever lost a deal because the insurance company wouldn''t insure? I'm trying to figure all this out before I go to my insurance co. and tell them all this.

Thanks.