They disabled the alarm once they got inside, but not before it had gone off and triggered a zillion calls and messages to us, the police, the alarm company dispatch and the alarm company owner who had installed our device personally. 

In Canada it is not routine to run criminal background checks and there appears to be no ready means of conducting them.

Now his butt is on fire LOL.Even more red flags.Let me guess, he wants to be paid in cash or if by check the check is made out to his name not a business, so he has no business entity, no insurance, no workers comp waiver for himself and certainly none for anyone if he brings a helper on your property.Hope none of this ever comes back to bite you, like he falls off his ladder painting your house, breaks his back, becomes permanently disabled, somebody gets in his ear about how he can get his doctors fees and and a fat cash settlement paid since you're responsible for it, and that's just the beginning of the issues that could come up.

Any routine maintenance and inspection is best done by the landlord, whether it is furnace filters, smoke detector batteries, checking for leaks under the sinks or anything else.

I routinely do the same thing on my flips.

Two special rights extended to disable 1) the right to make reasonable modifications to dwelling to enable them to live there comfortably, and 2) the responsibility of management to make reasonable accommodations.

I routinely use these sites for prescreening and that way I can plan my exit strategy.

Rather than being an occasional big expense, these things just become part of your routine annual costs.Then there are the horror cases.

It's the one thing that really needs routine check ups with looking for failures and leaks etc.

I know several people that routinely foster dogs and volunteer at shelters, and their homes are kept very clean.