They will check for everything to ensure safety and habitable. i.e. doors/locks, lights, detectors, windows/screens, appliances (stove with anti-tip plate), hand rails, wiring in the unit and in the basement, lead paint (if children).....etc6.

This is an anti whole selling reply, this is a you have no idea what you're doing reply.

I don't know either, but it would not surprise me if more tenant-friendly environments (SF, NYC...) have anti-discrimination laws that mean you have to tread very carefully when charging higher rents and deposits.

They had some anti-gentrification people protesting it pretty aggressively. 

I am definitely not trying to be "anti tenant," but the way they both described the mold is that it is literally a "bed shaped" space where it begins and ends at the bed, from the head to the foot and top to bottom and isn't present elsewhere.

Most of those guys are anti-TK, but that is an perspective you should probably listen to understand what is your best route.

Given a very pro-hotel bias in the government and popular anti-STR sentiment from the local community, as Lane said, it could become difficult for STR owners at some point in the future.  

Some tattoos are art some are violent anti social statements. 

RREither way could work, IF you have the discipline to put that same spare $50k over three years into an account that gives you even less interest than you'd be saving by paying down the extra $50k.Of course, I'm assuming borrowing 100% on the uniquely great deal, so I'm not anti-borrowing.

Anti-up a downpayment.