They'll make sure all the windows work, and that the smoke alarms are installed correctly, that any stairway with more than 2 steps has a railing, etc. 

They can send you a standard CT lease and then you can cruise forums for landlords to see which things you may want to add (pet fees, no smoking, etc.)The fact that a lot of work has been done will help you in a C-/D, but choosing tenants is going to be the thing that either makes or breaks you and it's going to be hard.

My realtor is also having a sit down with a prospective tenant to address some concerns I heard when I called their previous landlord, mainly no smoking and holes in the walls.

We had one bad experience where the guest was smoking cigarettes in the home which was flagged immediately by the maid. 

I just had one last week, it was a broken smoke detector. 40 bux. 

Some of our companies are requesting that the lease state no smoking.

Supposedly that Mediterranean diet will help your brain health too.Only 20% of the US population smokes and that decreases as income goes up so I you probably won't see alot of smoking investors.Thanks for the statistics on smoking. 

The shutters would be for looks only, so no need to have an arched top IMO.Cool, the trim and eaves are a dark red now.

I have had a lot of contractors over the years try to blow smoke up my rear thinking I didn't know what needed to be done and how much it was really going to cost.

Neither my brother or myself smoke.