Painting walls and cleaning the carpet (unless stained with grease and beach) is normal wear and tear and is a landlord's responsibility when tenants move out.  

If a few properties around you don't get renovated and have really nightmare tenants, that can cause a stain on the whole neighborhood, and is completely out of your control.

Dog hairs don't stick to it well at all and it really doesn't stain.

Also our floor stain was lighter than we expected so we had to do two coats, which took forever to dry and we ended up having to reschedule a ton of showings.

We found lots of food crumbs on the floor and food stains on the bedding.Questions:1) Should we ask her to email a request for terminating the month to month lease?

Best case scenario, they cause more wear and tear on the property with each step they take, each pee dribble on the carpet, and the dirt they track in that accumulates to a stain.

Is that an Early American tone of stain I sense?

So we did what you suggested: Since he asked to charge total $500, we counter-offered $250 and said that we don't need to see the receipts if it's that amount.He called back yelling at us, saying he called Pros and it's not possible to remove the stain.

Purchase price: $140,000 Cash invested: $10,000 Purchased a home that hadn't been updated, installed granite countertops throughout, stained the cabinets, updated hardware, new paint, and new carpet.

Setting up inspections that are really potential buyers.. ( again just flat lying to sellers)this is why this is such a stain on the whole real estate industry.. these are the techniques taught to folks who either lack moral compass or just plain don't care and its all about the benjimans to them.as you know in your state working with anyone is foreclosure the laws are intense on who and what you can do.. does that stop people no..advertising a home bed bath etc that yoiu do not own is basically illegal in all states period.