A great strategy with stink is to put the piece of carpet in a sealed plastic bag, if the judge questions the need to replace offer to let them smell it.

Supposedly Delta puts more plastic in the fixtures that they sell to HD.

I just bought a batch of blank 18x24 yellow corrugated plastic signs.

Check locally tooI was able to get my blank signs cheapest from a local bulk sign/plastics supplier 

The contractor I had used for the home back then was always proud of saving me money on material and had installed plastic shut-off valves, probably saved me $5 a piece - on 8 valves total in the house.

If you want something more durable, get the thicker blinds (heavy plastic slats) not the cheap aluminum ones.

They are on a corner lot and inside their hillbilly fence they have 2-3 dogs, a dog kennel, a shed, a chicken coop with chickens (I think 5, which is allowable in our city) and now a duck as well as a plastic greenhouse.They do keep their yard mowed, but this fenced in menagerie is an eyesore.Would I be out of line to contact the landlord and ask him to PLEASE put up a privacy fence, so we don't have to look at all the junk these people have crammed into their back yard? 

Go a day ahead of the exterminator with a giant box of thick 50 gallon contractor trash bags and make sure the tenants but everything in plastic boxes or double tied up trash bags (be careful when you get back home).

Aluminum wire has been the cause of fires, and may require special steps to reduce the risk.A local vendor producing plastic pipe years ago bought defective material that had been misrepresented.

People are not careful and run too much grease down the drain and sewer clogs up, or baby drops a plastic lid in toilet that plugs sewer, $1200 later the plumber fishes it out after sewage backed up and ruined $1000 of carpet.