In my experience, once a pet fee is paid by the tenant, its almost as if it is a sunk-cost to them -- "I don't care if my dog chews on the carpet, I already paid my pet fee" as opposed too "Don't chew on that carpet, I want to get my deposit back!"

You have certainly fanned the flame of determination in me and given my mind more to chew on.  

@Chris Clothier  Chris is the preeminent expert in the turn key space and he will tell you his company learned this very early on and left the space.. there is NO money in it for the investor and all you do as a TK operator is get your butt chewed when your clients tenant trashs the house for yet another time.think of it logically .. this is the cheapest housing the cheapest rent.. and what does that combination bring you.. it brings you the roughest tenant.. botton line end of discussion.If you go .. go on a Saturday.. mid week things are quite in almost all neighborhoods.. you would be much better off putting 50% down on a 100k TK .. that rents for 900 to 1100 that's a totally different renter, not that you could not have a bummer but you mitigate it dramatically.

I'm still getting more info since I am a newbie to investments and I don't wanna bit off more than I can chew.  

Just another perspective for you to chew on. ;)Cheers!

Okay folks, here's one for you to chew on this Tuesday morning. ;)My tenant flushed a plastic bottle, about 4-5" long, about 1-2" in diameter down the toilet and clogged it. 

Nothing put under contract but did get chewed out twice.

This should GREATLY increase the value as well as the rents.Something we're chewing on...

Squirrels chew a hole in the soffit?

that would chew up at least $350 in legal fees...no?