You can sand it or go "passive/chemical. 

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

Thought, statistically speaking, your children stand a far, far, far greater chance of being abducted or harmed by someone they already know than by strangers.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

Don't worry it won't do any harm.

"What harm could adding lights and hauling in a stove do to a lender?

No harm in asking to sort it out in your head.

I had another house with chemical drums in the backyard, got it real cheap.

No harm intended.

I went back to school to become a chemical engineer and worked in that field for nearly 8 years.