Bin Zinsser makes products to cover over cigarette nicotine stains and smells.

Wow, your body's thermostat is tuned really low :-)Yes a 'newer' cooling system can make the indoor air 68d when it is over 100 outside.

A Pre-foreclosure listing just means somehow, Zillow/realtor/Trulia or wherever, gets notice (or even just smells) that a property is potentially been giving a foreclosure notice.

It will likely be more difficult to rent to a able-bodied tenants and much easier to rent to disabled tenants, possibly at a premium since it is (almost) ready to go.

Any body can refer me to an excellent RE mentor?

Then there is one on the wall to the left of it, which I hate opening since it opens to the patio of my neighbors apartment where she keeps 5 little dogs, so opening it only fills the hot living room with the smell of dog urine.

So if anyone happens to know where that threshold is or where to look...like MD law, codes, statues, regulatory body, etc.

Tenant let dog live in garage for a year.now smell won't come out of garage floor.

"Something smells good" 

One of the things he championed was the use of religious bodies for that purpose, something no Marxist would have permitted.