I'm 46 and took off 8 years due to personal tragedy.

One only has to look at the recent tragedies in California to understand the danger.Safety is an issue.

I would probably not, I would definitely NOT renew her lease and if she was on a month to month rental I would give her notice to vacate with whatever lead time is required by your agreement, state or locality.Personally, I'd rather have a vacancy than a tenant created tragedy.

It's amazing, and a financial tragedy. 

And I am sure they will be looking to settle with an insurance company, as most people don't have the assets to pay off such a settlement from this type of tragedy.  

Tragedy always happens when you least expect it.  

Or simply a horrible tragedy where there is no upside?

Good article.I had a feeling the Surfside tragedy would create waves later for ocean-front condos.  

This is just normal life, it’s not some kind of tragedy when these things happen.

I just don't think there's any reason to think that we have any short-term problems to worry about (as far as apocalyptic tragedies go) here in the US.