There are special primers for the walls to encase the cat (or dog) smell from this--which is an option.With a floor like this, with about a million high heel divots from 1890 until yesterday, and a finish that has reached the end of its service life, the discoloration is not such a problem, if you intend to put in pet resistant carpet and padding, it will be covered.An alternative would be to sand it down and refinish it to look like a refinished floor...they never look like new because they use chemical clear coats now vs Varnish or shellac like the olden days.Even with sanding the dog stains may need to be bleached out, and may still have trace shadow that they were there.Why is it a computer nook, well it doesn't have to be.

It spiked my interest in real estate even more.

Tell your wife to cool her heels and relax.

The symptoms you describe (usage spikes whenever the home is occupied) sound like a leak or a running toilet, but I know you said you had everything checked by a plumber and found nothing.  

I like the EUR/JPY for its wild spikes.

I currently live in Greenville and grew up in a nearby, small town and can agree the growth and potential for more is here. last couple years has seen quite a spike in commercial/residential growth and with bigger industries moving in.

Inventory is spiking and sales are dropping.

And as you can see below, this amount spikes during times of economic tumult.

Hopefully your cash flow goes up as well, but Indy doesn't have a lot of huge spikes in rental increases, so the cash flow is a little slower to grow in my experience... but everything changes in time.

Due to their Dec 2022 error, my escrow account was incorrectly charged an additional $26,000 when my neighbor's property taxes were paid from my escrow account, causing my monthly payments to spike up by 5K(!!!)