Dawid Surowiec alarm bells should be going off when I hear an owner doesn’t want tenants to know etc. they need to know as otherwise what if they come back and say they have 2 months deposits or leases executed etc or better yet they are not paying and your trying to evict them which could take forever.

I call them Safety and Water Inspections, check all the smoke alarms and under every sink, this gets me a visual of pretty much the entire property.

If the dwelling has no mailbox and has a keyless bolting device, alarm system, or dangerous animal that prevents the landlord from entering the premises to leave the notice to vacate on the inside of the main entry door, the landlord may securely affix the notice on the outside of the main entry door"

Monthly holding costs for 180 days (giving myself lots of time to do it and learn) - $1668.00 (includes electric/cable/alarm monitoring/water/trash/insurance/lawn and snow maint and 5% general maintenance figure).

If you're that worried get a portable alarm system. 

In the end since our credit was excellent I think we could have done just as well if we went direct to a local lender.Also 5 plus units changes fire code compliance in our area so we needed a fire alarm system approved by the town which the building had but there were some tweaks to be done.

Also, I'm in the same situation with the portable alarm that I use at both my house and the rentals.

In fact if one did my first reaction would be alarm bells and I would ask "what's the catch?" 

I've spoken with a number of remediators about it and they all say there's an alarming amount of Stachybotrys in the air.

As others have said, spend the $1.50 for the outlet and the $3 for the smoke alarm battery, pick up a new stove at one of the recent big appliance sales at Lowes/Home Depot, take the cost of this off next years taxes, start getting your money back from Section 8 and when the current lease is up, don't renew with this program.Gail