People with pets have a harder time finding a place to live - survey your area on Craigslist and count percent of places that have no pet policy.Point being, it's a ripe market to target with a few safeguards (suggested above) put in place.

I would survey other pet fees in your area.

He might be reporting a higher rent amount as part of a rent survey to artificially inflate market rents in order to get a higher rent from another section 8 tenant.  

Do your own market survey, drive the property and neighborhood.  

Yes, they counter offered, i agreed, checks were cut to title company and stuff, inspection and survey ordered, now there backing out...

Land $10,000, due diligence / soft costs $3000 (oversees architect and engineering), $1900 to remove from flood plain / get survey, the house is 700 sq ft which the floorplan is below.

Chemicals are cheap (100,000k gross location can run on $3500 in supplies) Auto Laundry News carwashmag.com is a tremendous resource for industry news and owner surveys.

Closing Costs [ ] Transfer tax [ ] Title insurance policy [ ] _______Attorney's fee [ ] Real estate brokerage fee[ ]Loan discount not to exceed____[ ] Satisfaction and recording fee [ ] Repairs or replacements, in addition to those in paragraph 9, not to exceed $________________________[ ]Wood destroying organism report [ ] Appraisal fee [ ] Survey [ ] Other_____________________________________B.

I came across some tenant survey results suggesting covered parking was a major on-site perk.

Try googling your town and "land survey" and call a few companies