Our landlord is charging us for sanding and staining the entire room.

Preventing that process is probably the greatest opportunity both for investors and victims.

Laws can be different in each state.Now is the time to seek advice from an experienced real estate attorney in your area to prevent any serious mistakes you might make dealing with these people.

Its not so much to be used as retaliation, but more-so as a preventative.

If carpet must be used we use a rental grade in a dark brown color, which helps to hide stains...and just to a carpet clean between tenants.

Katrina caused massive infrastructure damage that prevented people returning to there homes for months (not days or weeks, but months).  

That prevented me from getting a HELOC on my primary residence so I imagine it will come into play here.I'm looking for advice on next steps and timing. 

Some thoughts:We have to do something to prevent further loss.

These realtors don't understand the many different exit strategies in real estate investing and that these exclusive rep agreements prevent them.

The fine is almost $400, and being unaware of the issue had no way to prevent it.