If there is no active lease agreement, and again depending on state regulations, send them a notice to vacate.I do not ever permit smoking in my rentals, it is one of the most costly and time consuming tenant habit to mitigate.Feel free to connect - hope all goes well!

Homes before the war, basements were virtually never meant to be habitable spaces, so there's a lot of work to be done to make it that way.

But, habits are hard to change, and whatever it was that the buyer was doing to put him in a position where he wasn't able to buy outright is unlikely to change.I've heard numbers like 30% of lease options will actually sell. 

Claiming landlord negligence and breach of habitability.  

From there be consistent and make it a daily habit to do these tasks 

Hello Anthony,I've been working with 2 Investors who've decided to actually pay me in cash.This became a bad habit for me because I've gotten burned twice on two deals a little while after that.

The idea of a "killer deal" will do harm in delaying purchase or preventing purchase at all.

Un-educated posts like yours put people with the need for real help, in harm's way.

When you rent a property, you are generally bound to provide a habitable property.

I have always enjoyed sitting down at the table to discuss taxes, but perhaps thats my comfort based upon habit.