Ok, you found a nice little spot for your mansion, take a little time to look the place over. Really look it over, you may be here a while. Not every place is perfect or even close, but what you want is acceptable and acceptable can mean a lot of things.
Look up, look for dead trees or ones leaning hard in your direction. Look for dead tops and broken branches. All of these things can kill you or worse injure you, remember the reason you are there is because no one else is and if you get pinned or trapped, it might be a while before anyone finds you. I like heavy brush over tall trees for this reason, plus the brush hides you better. If you have to pick a spot where there is this danger, try to get in the middle of trees that have already fallen. Spend a night out in an ice storm and you will understand this much better. Or just take my advice.
Look down and around, is there high ground you can set up on? How close is that creek? Is there trash five feet up in the bushes around you? Most places not being used are empty for a reason and flooding is a common one. Waking up at midnight in a foot of water is not fun and tends to kill any buzz you might have had when you went to sleep. Most of the spots I have used in the east are swamps and I find to be just fine as long as you set up on the highest ground possible and expect a soaking every now and then.
Be aware of animal signs, you don't need to set up on a gator slide or do what I did the first time I went west, set up camp right off a mule deer path. I was impressed with how large they were three feet away and how they might stomp me into a shallow hole in the ground.
Speaking of wildlife, make sure there are no anthills nearby. I have dealt with many camp pests, but ants are the absolute worst in my book. I even had one colony chew through the floor of a brand new mansion. Ant poison works, but if you can avoid them, that is even better.
If you are near a road, and most places are, make sure there is a guardrail, deep ditch, or a line of fairly good sized trees between your camp and the road, it is bad enough a drunk driver crashes right outside your camp, but if he crashes into your camp things get much worse. Even if you don't get hurt, folks that respond will definitely ruin your day.
Finally, try to sleep one night there to see if it really is a good spot. There might be an all night bar a block away blaring music, or a factory might have a piece of machinery that cycles every 2 hours and imitates an air raid in noise and intensity.
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