Once in, they could pay rent for a few months until you feel everything is perfect, which then greases the tracks for them to tear your life apart.

Some renters become home inspectors and will tear your place apart regarding anything (maybe for a discount).  

Don't use sheet vinyl--tears way too easily.  

Outsourcing the 3000 would cost me .277 more per piece but that doesn't take into account my time, wear and tear on my equipment, 3 trips to the post office, making a total mess of my office, etc.Put another way, knowing I can only do about 40 per hour tops times the .277 per piece I save by doing it myself, comes out to $11.08 an hour.  

I think guests hardly ever damage things intentionally, but when you have luggage coming in and out all the time and little kids running around a "new place," there IS a lot more wear-and-tear, scuffs/dents/scrapes, and broken glass. 

Anything in R zoning is definitely a tear down.

Usually, owners will look a little more kindly on MTR because it's less wear and tear.

By installing our own, we remove the wear and tear and damage the tenants do by moving W/Ds in and out and hooking them up wrong (which is common) and using cheap components that cause leaks and destroy floors and walls.

Instead of increasing rent, I would look at having the security deposit increased to protect against wear and tear.

Seems like this is mostly for tear out which is the easy part.