Still need to add some stringers for a few steps and still undecided on the decking material.Question: Should I install the stringers for the steps now or place the skirt around the rim/header joists first?

Since I was a child, I've done something with real estate - starting with building houses out of shoe boxes, then drawing them (by hand) along with floor plans before entering high school.

luckily, one cop took pity on me, and called in the Dept of Child Services.

If they do start touching things, I ask them to please keep their hands off the walls and the woodwork... so often told to me when I was a child! 

I might ask who else had red hair in my family (both my Mom and Dad did, as I did as a child).

It looks to be a good deal for both of us and he looks to be a long term tenant.I am living with my fiancée and hope we can rent that out in a year or two when we look for "our house" ( though she is undecided about that).

@Sarah Buchanan while your attorney is at it for the renter, have him fire off a demand letter to animal control, the county (I am assuming it is county, if not then City) manager, probably copy the DA and local police demanding that they handle this and holding them responsible for future issues with the dog of which you have notified them....that should light the proper fire.... we did something similar for a neighbors dog at one of our properties that bit a child from our property. 

So just know you were the cause of making a young child cry...

The American Dream will prove to be a lie for them.But that's not what I worry about for my future.I worry that someday, someone close to me is going to come and tell me that their child needs medical care that isn't covered under their medical insurance, and I won't have enough money to write a check for them.

Deadbeat Dads (and Moms) that don't pay their child support.