Can't really put my finger on it but smells sort of like body odor, cigarette smoke and uncleaned clothes.

Same with the kitchen ceiling, assuming it is grease/smoke buildup.

Even if we assume your went over renovation budget by 20-30%, I suspect your original analysis was not great.In CA a LOT of properties are not going to cash flow unless you get a smoking deal.

So, create status codes for both of these and a few in-between codes to help you work smarter, not harder.Holy smokes… this is all such valuable information!

Smoke in non-smoking unit, could not evict.For a long time San Diego was the most moderate of the CA big cities. 

Nope - spent it on scratch off tickets and cigarettes and about a year after we bought the property we had to evict her.  

BrianNothing prevents tenant from running the water, kicking holes in walls and door, or other vandalism.However, these things seldom happen as retribution.More likely, a tenant fills up an inflatable pool every other day in the summer, or fails to report that the kitchen drain is leaking, or that the boyfriend beats her up every weekend and busting up the place, or that tenant lets a dog do his business on the carpet, or overflows the tub because they fell asleep.While a good tenant will agree to a fair water policy; the court will typically throw out the policy in an eviction.Keep in mind that you can get a leak notification from water department via “clear-reads” through the mycleveland water website.Usually bad tenants are multi-dimensional... they tend to follow a pattern... low credit score, extension criminal background hits such as driving with suspended license, expired plates, drugs, panning the rent late, refusing to pay the water, violating trash pickup guidelines, police calls by the neighbors, no-show for service calls, removing smoke retractor batteries for the kids toys, not replacing burned out lightbulbs, not taking care of the yard (in a single family”, busting blinds and screens, etc. 

Buy a house in a vacation market and smoke the competition.

As you're seeing, they offer "incentives" to go with the builder's in-house lender, but it's often just smoke and mirrors. 

Unless you get a smoking deal on a 2010+ 3bdr home, I would skip this area for SFH investing.