If you want to sell for a decent price, you need to clean up the issues.2.

Your "generally cleanish" tenant will leave you a mess to clean up, you'll lose a couple months of rent and utilities, and you'll realize that a $50 late fee isn't extra income.Don't reward her with cash for keys.

The issue I find is that when I go to list my units, which are clean and moderately upgraded apartments in Little Havana and Allapattah I literally have 70 applicants in 24hrs via facebook marketplace or through the apartment rental platform my property management software interfaces with (like Apartments.com etc).So when I have 70 people lining up with first, last and deposit with no other middleman or agency impeding the process or requiring inspections or causing delays or requesting additional paperwork be filled out where is my incentive to go the section 8 route?

And worst case, they start to clean up, sort of clean up, just enough to stave off a few more months of actions but never enough to truly cure anything, and it's a cycle of pain for years. 

It connects my airbnb and VRBO calendars, offers automated messaging, smart lock integration, cleaning calendar/reminders, and offers pretty good income reports.

Have clear guidelines about who is responsible for cleaning.

Also, when you are calculating returns, don't forget that utilities are in your name, you need to pay for internet and Netflix, paper towels, toilet paper, laundry and cleaning supplies, extra sheets, towels, pillows, etc.  

Add $800 for paint, floor covering and essentials plus my laborer for 2 days and my total cost was about $1400.I painted the 30 1200 to 2700 sq ft homes in Las Vegas with two helpers including ceilings and it never took more than two days to paint a house and that included removing all the electric wall plates, dropping ceiling light fixtures, removing smoke detectors, cleaning windows, installing new blinds, cleaning bathroom fixtures and it never took the 3 of us more than 2 days because I am good at knowing how to get the most from my workers like a Lakers coach knows which players to put on the court because the cost to do a paint job is not as critical as the time it takes because when I go to Las Vegas to manage a job I have to leave Los Angeles and my 20+ employees without my micro-management and "When The Cat Is Away The Mouse Will Play" if you know what I mean.I am a very difficult person to work for because I am 71-years old, a workaholic, a fast worker and when young workers are slow I fire them within minutes when they are working because I don't like to have to waste my time and stop the work I am doing to constantly check on my workers and I don't like to get emotional and have to keep correcting workers when they work sloppy and slow.

Things such as; toilet paper, drinking water, pet supplies, linens and hot tub chemicals and cleanings that we didn't initially factor into our Pro Forma's..The costs of these are real, but even realer are the stocking, cleaning and preparing a space for visitors in a few hours between check ins.

How frequently do other travel nurse unit operators send out a cleaning crew?