I have 45 of these and spent yesterday afternoon throwing darts in my garage while I listened to podcasts and smoked a cigar, so it's not too labor intensive.... check out BP podcast 110 where I talked about it on the second half of the podcast.

My move-out rehab will include: full exterior pressure washing and repainting, full interior repainting, removal of all carpet (and replace with tile), resodding the backyard, filling about 50 nail holes, re-installing hardwired smoke detectors (they removed all of them), and landscaping.

I have mine do the lawn/snow and pick up trash, then I have another tenant clean the halls and common areas, take out the laundry trash, pick up trash and replace hallway light bulbs and smoke detector batteries.

I am just going to take a stab in the dark here and say no they do not have any liability.  

I want to do dark carpet because there's a chance I may need to move back into the house and I personally prefer carpet to hard floors

Then you can just say "it's the landlord's policy that you don't smoke" or whatever the issue may be.We also require our tenants to have their rent automatically withdrawn every month.

Traditionally fire, smoke, explosion are the only perils covered on tenant legal liability on the renters form.

In any event, if you've been reading some of my blogs and posts on here, I'm negotiating this one deal via a private seller, and caught in between whether I should tell my agent or not.Just hate to leave him out in the dark.  

Never hear from them again.. or they keep hitting you for other small dollars until they then go dark..

The folks who established your Solo 401(k) really should have been able to guide you through this and saved you the headache, however.Kreighton and his team at Soleara have tuned into the fact that mainstream banks are A) generally not very capable and B) pretty much in the dark when it comes to accounts held by a self-directed retirement plan.