They wear regular clothes and there cars are un-tagged.

It was a disaster, clothes everywhere food on the floors garbage everywhere.

Today I own two business' outside of real estate one is clothing(I'm a silent partner but I used to be active)the other is construction.  

You can make minor adjustments based on the type of appliances (dishwasher, clothes washer and dryer, air conditioning, etc.) and the size of the rental.

I've never seen a neat and tidy unit occupied by a deadbeat non-paying tenant.My first experience was cloths in a trash bag and a unit I was not able to view because "the tenant was very private".

I’ve also “self-insured” a clothes washer failure for about $2500 and a main water line failure for about $3500.

The basements were often hand dug and therefore shallow, basement walls made from brick, stone and concrete, sometimes a mix and usually damp, no sump pump, old electrical and hard to work on, old plumbing system, plaster walls with cracks, only one bath, tiny closets, smaller bedrooms, tons of millwork - sometimes original, often with 5 coats of cakey white paint, doors and windows often built on site and custom sizes, so you can't go to HD and pick up a new door, it won't fit.

You can make minor adjustments based on the type of appliances (dishwasher, clothes washer and dryer, air conditioning, etc.) and the size of the rental.

That said, mice inside the house is (in my opinion) the landlord's responsibility, since it is unlikely tenants are carrying mice in with their clothes or pets the way you might with say bedbugs or fleas.

Here is one example of the debates about this in the last 6 months:The emperor has no clothes!