Do you need to clean out the furniture also?

I no longer take or sell any of the furniture or stuff left behind.

Paying actual value for furniture is as far as you'd ever want to go, and even that's looking for trouble.

In doing so, I noticed that the house looked 100x better with their furniture and decor up.

@Marc Dufour Yes, you would need to get estimates for the repairs so you can deduct from security deposit and clearly document on the invoice, send the tenant a copy & keep a copy of the invoice and a copy of the refunded security check for yourself.However, you may want to wait until the move out inspection (after all of tenants belonging are removed from the property) to get a clear assessment of all repairs that are needed) . you don't want furniture/furnishing blocking or hiding anything.

But I would have to buy some bedroom furniture in order for this to work and seem appealing to a long term tenant.

Disposal of fluids can be done properly, it's when they aren't you can have an issue.Noise is another issue to be covered generally, so revving up an engine constantly (as if they think they know what they are doing as old hot roders did) can be a noise issue.My lease prevented the tenant from keeping any inoperable machinery on premises or parts thereof, which meant all vehicles, lawn mowers or any gadget had to be operable, vehicles had to be titled, licensed and insured.The outside had to be free of clutter, trash, salvage or personal property not designed specifically as lawn furniture or for outdoor cooking and such was to be stored from view from the street when not in use.Those types of covenants will take care of a vehicle on blocks or an engine sitting in the yard.I wouldn't say anything about some minor repair being made to a vehicle, where do you draw the line, changing a windshield wiper or adding fluids or pulling the transmission. so long as it's done in the day and operable, doesn't cause toxics to spill, doesn't produce unwanted annoying noises, isn't a safety issue, is kept clean and neat, what's the issue?

thanks everyone, they ended up paying for the electric and fixing the roof.. they also left the house a mess and got an extra 600 to clean the furniture out of it (which paid for the dumpster and my time).

We kept having people dumping furniture in our parking lot next to the dumpster around the 1st of each month.

Like most I also have business ideas revolving real estate but I believe that in order to start any business you need to be an expert on your field.I currently live in Newark NJ I had to go back to work for documentation purposes and me and my brother own a family business that’s been passed down to us and we currently grew to a store front in Furniture Upholstery, my original plan is to purchase my first investment using a FHA 203K loan on a 3 family for cash flow, I also have an investor willing to give me $10,000 so I was planning on using his money for holding cost I’m going to put up the 3.5% down payment and closing cost.