You have to be hardened and impenetrable.

The putty will harden within a day to become a permanent repair.Your best bet might be to replace those damaged boards if you still can't get it right.

.= appreciate your work more...if let's say their voucher is for $1,500, please consider this also includes utilities allocation so your actual total pay may be $1,300. bonus points for a lot of insulation in the walls and attic+-crawl space. my local HA has some discounts available with local vendors for energy audit and property insulation/green stuff. you harden your property by going to nice and  abuse-resistent: check your local competition and go one level above. kitchens and bathroom sells the property. also go directly to the heart of the head/ lady of the house!!!

Quote from @Nathan Harden: just research what methods of conveyance your state has available which offers more seller protections. 

I have been trying to "harden" the property using many suggestions I have learned here.Also, as I will be starting law school in the fall and I don't want to burden my husband with managing the property, I will likely be looking into hiring a PM company.  

This technique seems to help avoid due-on-sale transfer issues and creates more opaqueness and anonymity around your real estate holdings, which helps ward off plaintiff's attorneys (makes you a more "hardened" target).

This gives me a lower yield but makes them extremely hardened against a recession and ever losing them (versus many people who went bust in the last recession in this asset class due to debt payments they couldn't make).

@John D.Your soft spot in your heart will harden because of the stress when you keep hearing their excuses as to why they......and their co-signer can't pay the rent. 

No need for a redundant threadhttp://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/52/topics/68041-how-do-you-harden-your-rentals

The product appears to be more than just a coating as it goes on in some depth, then hardens into a seamless layer.