Several have hard core smokers and pets. 

Charge a pet deposit.3.

My biggest pet peeve that has caused me to churn through agents is they don't return phone calls in a timely manner.

Consider allowing pets for a $200 fee and a $25 month charge to increase rents and offset your loss of cash. 

Also, he has 2 pets and his lease clearly states no pets.

Folks with the sketchiest history trying to cram as many folks (and pets) as possible into my unit.The market is so strong here I recently started asking for my "see if anyone will bite" price.

Also, we will be looking for a house to rent (pet friendly) if any one knows of or has any rentals!!!

Don't underestimate repairs as that's the biggest pet-peeve I personally have with wholesalers.

When we did the clean up of the house after her departure, we discovered she had kept a cat in the house in direct violation of our No Pets Policy and had extensively pock marked the newly refinished wood floors with her stiletto heel shoes.

I believe this strategy will get you there much quicker than doing the conventional loans with the 25% down payment that is then stuck in the property for years.One pet peeve of mine however is discussing REI in terms of units instead of $ value.