If it was just more income, that's not bad, but if it was for special cleaning and maintenance because of the pet, perhaps with no further pets living there, you could inspect for and mitigate any potential pet concerns.Thinking about carpet and paint repairs in some areas and such.After my last dog died, it took a while before I saw where he rubbed up on certain walls and doors.

Basically, its all risk mitigation! 

The sponsor should be communicating the good and the bad, while explaining what they are doing to mitigate the negatives.

Even with a mitigation report.

. ;) The TLDR is that is it literally built wrong and they clearly knew it was a bad design when they built it and so built in some hacks to mitigate the bad design, but hacks are bad. 

I would always recommend holding each asset and company in a separate LLC (or other entity depending on tax ramifications) to mitigate risks stemming from one asset to another. 

I'll be working from home due to a COVID outbreak at work (yep, awful times these days!)

Do you have a previous gas tank or spill and you need to do environmental mitigation?

My point was (in more simple terms)  that by changing our perspective we can mitigate if not eliminate the unnecessary pressures of "perfection"

Not picking on you, I just like to dig a bit to learn...was the $50k reno cost mitigated because the owner was the contractor?...