If you want to keep this alert as is, you can change it back in your notifications settings .I rely on these keyword alerts to not be late to the party so to speak :-) I usually have BP open all day on my browser, and do not necessarily click through to a conversation through an email, but I rely on the notification from the email to alert me in a timely fashion.That said....I would really prefer that instead of changing my settings on your own and leaving it up to me to figure out what is going on (took me a whole day) and then make it my responsibility to change them back, that you would ASK ME first if I would like my settings changed.

They want you to have done skin in the game especially if you are new.

What that might leave is just the real deal ones to invest in. http://labusinessjournal.com/news/2016/feb/09/top-silicon-beach-venture-capitalist-warns-bloodba/

That is actual money leaving your pocket, so you have to account for that opportunity cost.

The seller is working on getting the house classified as habitable again so that I can buy it, but I don't think they will remove the boards from the windows and doors and frankly I would prefer they leave it to help deter squatters.  

Perhaps the answer is to offer to compensate them for the mattress supports, at the end of their lease, provided that they leave these custom built mattress supports when they move.

I understand the appreciation part of it unless you have other source of income to support it ,what will happen if something wrong goes and the appreciation you will only receive when you sell the property and also no vacancy means ,you are going to rent it and forget it for ever and never rent it again which is not true ,you might have to do some renovations ,clean it after somebody leaves and the tenants do not always tell you that they are moving out.

It'll take at least a week to get them served and you should beyond the "please leave" and cash for keys stage at that point.

Purchasing tools, such as an email domain, proves you have skin in the game.

Then a week after closing I decide to leave and rent out both sides.