There is a jut out wall where the fireplace is, and I am considering painting it black or dark grey (and the rest of the walls white).

I've added Hard wire smokes ect. and have to admit I'm over budget with prices of materials being so high. 

If you don't have something structured where you can keep everyone is a seat for 30 to 45 minutes then you may as well just smoke some joints, drink beer and whiskey and have a wild party nobody will forget.One meeting could be for flipping, single family investing, multi-family investing, the best ways to find properties, how to do rehabbing, how to deal with contractors, how to do the math for single family and multi-family investing before and after the purchase, financing, dealing with commercial investments, how to do accounting and reduce taxes, how to streamline your entire operation, what software to use and how to use it and a lot more.Most meetings have only coffee, water and cookies for people to munch on and not much more.

If someone is smoking, vaping, cooking strong smelling food, etc. they will smell it in the other unit.3.

They left the unit in pretty rough shape: smoke damage in every room, ceiling fan broken, bedroom door broken in half, trash left behind, food rotting in fridge, and just general damage throughout.

Some of your photos seem small and dark - I'd either retake them or adjust the brightness with some photo editing software.

Your unit is much more likely to catch fire from smoking, cooking, candles, or an electrical short.Exclude smokers.

Their lawyer is blowing smoke - you don't have to provide a high end fridge to meet habitability covenants, that I am aware of.

Like smoking, it is very difficult to go back from a pet property to a non pet property without significant time and cost.Applicants who avoid the extra compensation or play games to qualify, legally or not, are not desirable tenants. 

Hello,My previous tenant a frequent smoker left burning cigarette stubs on wooden stairs at least at three different spots and there are very conspicuous dark spots there, I have been putting of remediating this for quite sometime now.