@Matt R.Our own furnished rentals are aimed at students and academics (post docs) and are generally for a term (4-months) or longer, however another landlord here in town provides "Executive rentals" - furnished along with dishes, towels, sheets, etc and he takes a full months rent (the maximum under law here) as a security deposit.  

One "educator" was fined this year over $877,000 for dishing out how to do something illegally in real estate and forever bared by the FTC.

In many judicial settings and 'some' non-judicial (ie - Nevada) settings the mandated mediation  can be the petri dish where theses things take root.  

So my handyman is down on his knees as we speak, redoing crawlspace access points.Looking around inside the house, we found open bags of dog food, Christmas cookies sitting on the counter, and dirty dishes in the sink.

I just plug into those when I'm doing dishes, my commute, etc.See you around!

The owner/occupant had their satellite dish back on the roof the next day, but the tree remains.

Late last night I was catching up on several emails and enjoying a delicious deep dish pizza when an idea popped into my head for real estate investing - Be Bold...Be Loud...and Be Proud!

Lou Malanatis for deep dish in Park Ridge for pizza.  

After that rehab, he ended up going to satellite dish installs and seems a lot more engaged than he was doing the rehab stuff there for us at the end.At the end of the day, it worked out fine for us.

Located in a great neighborhood, formal DR, family room, built-in shelving, laundry closet & lrg eat-in kitchen w/ plenty of cabinet space.The home was once a rental, then individual family purchased it, they were foreclosed on, and the home sat empty for over 1 year.I have made some modifications to the home since I purchased with the help of family:  installed 2 new ceiling fans in the bedrooms, replaced 2 interior door knobs, replaced all outlets with 3 prong grounded, rewired the living room and hung double ceiling fans as there was not lighting other than lamp plugged into outlet, painted the dining room and kitchen, installed a dish washer, some small landscaping projects around the home, had ancient HVAC system serviced,  but much more needs to be done.