He was also very impressed by our "professional approach and presentation," which I attribute squarely to the great advice from the folks on this thread, as we've never done a deal like this, either a rehab/resale, or outside of our agent and MLS. 

Separately, if one spouse is granted sole use of the home under a divorce instrument (essentially divorce decrees, separation agreements), such spouse's use of the home is attributed to the other spouse to determine if the use requirement has been satisfied.

I attribute the spikes to laundry days.

Still, check with a lawyer in your state.We keep all of our tenant security deposits together in a bank account used exclusively for this purpose, but we keep a record as to the amount attributed to each tenant.

This is something to consider for your overall investment philosophy about targeting long-term terminal cash flows that are attributable to forced or natural appreciation.  

I argue that this wasn't the market helping us though...I attribute that to skill because I specifically chose this particular market because I thought that those things were going to happen.  

She has had a few minor repairs in just her first two months of the lease, but I couldn't 100% attribute them to her - a light cover fell and broke, but we had hired a cleaning company to clean the fixtures and they might not have replaced it properly.

You can then raise it less than the index and attribute it to a policy of trying to “keep good tenants at below market rent.”

Then I would use the pet deposit for all expenses that can be attributed to the pets. 

This way any overlays would be represented in a pop up attribute table when you select a parcel.I actually have a lot of really amazing data for overlays/constraints.