Definitely, hygiene and clean apartment is a good habit.

In the commercial world a listing broker if a deal fails when they told the seller to take the deal that can harm them for future business.

So I kicked the habit - I stopped going to seminars and started to apply some of those ideas that were preached by speakers who were experts at extracting fees from me.I started to attend real estate auctions, studying the process - watching others make a lot of money - I decided to get a credit line - increase my credit card limits and started looking for properties (cheap- ugly buildings) in the neighborhood where real estate auctions were taking place - my primary goal at this time was to learn the market in the area where I wanted to control real estate - I would look at 50-60 houses (but made no offers - when agents would try to qualify me I just said "I have a small inheritance and will not need financing) - I kept a journal of the price per square foot,  comparing properties, and all comments made by sellers and agents (this helped me to find the seller dominate selling motive),  that was helpful - but I soon discovered that I was just looking for real estate in the conventional way  - I needed to do something else - so I started to look for owners of real estate who had problems (I applied Power Prospecting formulas) and at the same time studying creative real estate techniques from the old masters in the industry - became a member of the Washington Real Estate Exchange, hosted a real estate investor club and started to give mini creative financing seminars  while networking with those I wanted to emulate. 

The vagueness is demonstrating that the completed product meets all of the building code requirements - the original intent of these was of course not habitation so the local agency (LA County in this case) needs to be provided the evidence to approve these as structures meeting building code requirements.

@Andrew Gudmunson, If you are serious about getting into the REI world I would highly recommend getting an attorney (specifically an experienced RE attorney) as they will be a GR8 resource and quite often keep you out of harms way!  

My question here is about the daily habits of successful REI business owners.

Everyone over age 18 should pass a criminal check and be comfortable that they are enhancing rather than harming the property and household dynamics. 

They seem to jump at any chance they get to harm me.

Yesterday I sent them an email reminding them that rent is due on the first, that the 3 xtra days they have for paying is just a courtesy but not to become a habit paying date.

Some may never consider the harm done to sellers unless someone speaks up.