I've allowed pets in my STR for five years and haven't had any problems except some extra cleaning a couple times, which was paid for by the guest. 

OP said: It’s frustrating, especially because our due diligence came back clean, leases were solid, and the property had just been fully renovated.

Do the Airbnb discounting, price a little under market, make sure your cleaning fees are at or below average, looser cancellation policies will all help.

That might be especially attractive to folks who want to shed the clothes they wear at work to keep their living space more clean.

While we didn’t need significant updates, our team focused on cleaning, staging, and marketing to highlight the home's features.

Instead, there should be dollar amounts assigned to specific events, i.e. demolition complete with full haul off, floors broom cleaned, no nails left in studs or subfloors $1,500.Plumbing rough in complete and rough in inspection passed: $4000Final plumbing completed $5000I am clearly making up dollar amounts, but look for these types of bids on large projects.  

Trash cleans you know. 

Its against my loan terms, and you cant stay at a prperty that is being shown it has to be clean.

Make sure everyone knows a cleaning schedule, expectation for common areas, how are you splitting utilities, guest policy, etc. 

My goal is to add verbiage within the lease that will decrease any tiffs between tenants for the common spaces and how to set expectations and promote group effort with cleaning the common areas/shoveling snow/personal dishes/shared fridge/laundry/having guests and so forth.