When I began law enforcement and learned years ago that I am simply a body in any job.

Or with a duplex driveway, one could try a snowblower or one of the body sled type shovels (depends on your amount of snowfall and personal fitness/interest).

You can not control every step a tenant takes, however, your bestvstrategy is to protect yourself by plugging in verbiage into your lease agreement that states that tenant is required to use the vent hood when cooking and failure to do so which causes damage such as smell in drywall, discooratiins, etc will result in thetenants security deposit being forefieted.

Also, a smell....how do you plan on proving the smell in small claims?

We refuse as you know... that's not a thing, not able to fully inspect the unit.Almost as soon as they leave and windows are shut, we notice a "wet dog" smell.

Many universities only guarantee housing for 1-2 years and most of the student body has to rent for the second half of their school career as a result.

See NC REC case file D13-0168 for the grotesque details about what happens when a state governing body hands a convicted habitual felon a license to continue to steal from the public. 

If the breaker has been replaced and the area around the main panel doesn't reek of burning plastic (electrical components melting  smell about as distinctive as burning hair) there is no safety issue. 

-I'm 100% sure she's dead, as I became the reluctant owner of the cat she left behind AND I was there for her body removal by the coroner (hey, I have an exciting life!).

Although, workers told me that he was always checking what they were doing and wasn't happy that the outside camera got covered, even though it was for the time to apply the paint and then it was removed.He reported the fridge was dead and also figured that a smell of sewer gas in the MB is due to a P-trap that was not installed when the sinks were changed.