Details say the management company had contacted the gas utility to report a gas odor prior to the explosion. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...For the sake of discussion and learning, I thought it would be interesting to discuss what your policy is for dealing with situations like this. 

The problem with meetups is they take a lot of very valuable time and produce very little to zero results.

I have two str's on solar...so electricity is zero.

Everyone has their own risk tolerance. 

If you're buying a house, just go buy it and ask the seller to take 3% off the price, or allow them to keep the extra 3% to sweeten the deal...If you're selling your flip or whatever, there are plenty of vehicles that allow you to safely do so and offer varying degrees of assistance depending on your experience and tolerance levels.

I want to re-establish my VA entitlement (allows me to put ZERO money down on a property).2.

Jenn,The "X" is eligible for FEMA's preferred risk policy so the pricing should be reasonable. 

Is there enough in the deal to cause you to tolerate an eviction?

The vast majority looking at multi-family have zero purchase potential in such.

I'm going to end up breaking even on this house (i.e. zero expense or profit), and still I don't regret it because I get to use it as education on pitfalls I didn't know to watch for.Take the plunge.