Their possible illegal status should motivate them to behave themselves to avoid being deported.

I simply hate wasting my time with potential tenants who have zero chance of renting my home and the first logical step seems to be have them fill out an application and prescreening them.

The way your market behaves is more predictable than bay area market, our market i extremely sensitive to rate changes esp in higher end market/zip code.

The bottom line that I see is that the property was tied up for decades by various people behaving badly, and this latest development in its history, the recent sale, appears to have had an extraordinary amount of concealed greasing of the skids just to pull it off. 

But what I'm trying to say is that if you cannot tolerate any risk on your investment, you should not be putting into real estate, stock market, or anything else.However, on the other hand, you seem to be having an issue with the fact that $20,000 invested well not generate $500 a month for you for your living expenses. 

That kind of wheelchair.The "good" news is that the animal still has to be under control and behave.

Oh and "Well, I have two dogs but they are just the most wonderful well behaved special snowflakes.

Tenants behave differently. 

That one will be have added to it a separate price to paint the entire interior.

Because Tenants are more likely to behave when you hold a lot of money!