Purchase price: $1,300,000 Cash invested: $130,000 Sale price: $1,650,000 We work with an investor who purchases the house and secures a deed in his name.

I had two lines of credit one unsecured for 5 million ( check book) and another for 10 million that we would secure them up with .. but you need time to do that bank required appraisal etc before we could tag the secured line and even at that they only lent 72% in these commercial loan structures..

So anyone who advertises or uses ANY marketing technique, can really advance businesses here. 

If you see work crews reaching out, ask the person in charge of securing housing where they go looking.

Question is: if I have one of these LLC (owned husband and wife, in a non-community property state), but it's a just a passive LLC - such that all it does is owns public securities (ie, our brokerage accounts are titled in the name of the LLC), does the same rule apply?

It's simply factual:  you violated the lease by smoking, stop it, remove the resulting odor and that a repeat action could result in eviction and loss of security deposit.  

Most work with us, some do not.Be careful also as they may tell you to keep their security deposit as last month's rent.

The online eFile providers can do it for you, sometimes for free.Warning: Email is NOT secure, and you will expose your contractors to unnecessary risk of identity theft.

But I also understand some people don’t really care about the cash flow as much as the security of not having to worry about a vacancy or whatever.

The vast majority of lawsuits against Landlords are for wrongful eviction, security deposit disputes, and Fair Housing Violations.