The house needs cosmetic fix up.New PaintCleaned up New CarpetThe previous owner had a cat and smoked cigarettes in the house.

So put it on line 18 as "depreciation" if you don't want to be in underwriting purgatory, playing underwriter ping pong, and subject to the whims of a randomly assigned underwriter who is having a bad day because she just found out her teenager is smoking cigarettes. 

I recently did a walk through (April 2019) on the property and the second I walked in I noticed smoke in the home, and a cigarette butt in the garage area (that I took a photo of).

When my tenants stop buying alcohol, cigarettes ,and lotto tickets then I’ll worry ...

Smoking any cigarettes, a cigar, or pipe, or using snuff or chewing tobacco?

There are multiple cigarette burns in the vinyl throughout the unit - reason I will replace.

As far as the mismanagement goes - the section 8 property does look somewhat rundown and unkempt but I think the main issue is that the residents are just kinda hanging out on the lawn and steps smoking cigarettes and drinking.

Even with a few gnarly evictions of crazy inherited tenants under my belt the worst I’ve had was old furniture left, dog turds and cigarette butts on the carpet and human turds un-flushed in the toilet (no upper-deckers yet thankfully).

This includes smoking cigarettes, cigars, pipes or any other smoking device.

Any tips on how to get cigarette smell out of house?