Dings on doorways and paint, burned out lights, trash.

But when you are first starting out, unless you have money to burn, you might want to become familiar with all the resources of the mass.gov website.

There have been investors who have been burned on this in the past.

Also as he is living alone with nobody to help, lets say they leave the stove lit and forget, i dont want the house to be burned down.I have no idea about their health profile, can I ask for that.

THEN I would spend my energy on craigslist.

My current research focus is on the recovery from injury, specifically burn and trauma.

You want to verify you have a good chance of loan approval and the income numbers and expenses of the property are correct before spending all this money on other items (site inspections, legal, etc.)The key for a seller or listing broker would be getting the buyer vetted for loan assumption before going into all of these other details that take up a bunch of time and energy.

A lot of folks did get burned in the last crash by banking on their appreciation, but not everybody did.

Finally rented it out but didn't do anything right in tenant selection but didn't get burned.

I just learned a whole lot more than I wanted about insurance after a tenant burned down a 24 unit building in one of our apartment complexes by throwing his cigarette out onto his balcony where he kept a pile of trash and boxes (sound familiar?)