@Troy Fisher, @Kevin Carbon and Tiffany Plovie run local meetups too.And there are so many REI clubs locally.

I am going to dig out my carbon paper.

Also there are a few BP members who put on some pretty awesome FREE meet ups (Naomi Pinger has one in Olympia, Kevin Carbon in Lakewood/Tacoma, Tarl Yarber hosts quite a few events up north).Search BP & meetup.com and you will find them.

in addition to my rental contract, can I include an addendum that lists a whole bunch of items such as the following:-by signing this lease, you acknowledge that carbon monoxide and smoke alarms are installed in your unit. -$100 will be charged/deducted from your security deposit if damaged or removed-cars must be registered and in operable condition. cars may not be used for storage. management reserves the right to tow any cars not in compliance-management will pay for drain clearance once per year. tenants are responsible for any other clogs. management reserves the right to deduct this from the security deposit-if the unit is part of HUD(section 8) and the unit fails inspection for sanitary reasons, management reserves the right to hire a professional cleaner and deduct $200 from the security deposit.

With regards to electric: 20 amp GFCI protected outlets at kitchen & bath counter levels, hard wired smoke/carbon detectors 15' from all bedrooms and 1 on each level, grounded outlets (if the outlet plug has 3 holes typically your all good if not you will be pulling new wire), from your general comments on overall condition you will likely be looking at a new service & panel as well.

We want to legally ensure that we are protected if in fact the tenant does use the garage as a bedroom, and if something were to occur (i.e. fire, carbon monoxide issue, etc).What would be the best way to inform the tenant that the garage is not to be used as a bedroom due to improper egress and fire risks, while maintaining protection if they do continue to keep as a bedroom behind our backs (i.e. if they state it is simply the storage of a bed and not being used as sleeping quarters... as there is really no way that we can prove otherwise as we are not there at night obviously).Thanks in advance!

No requirement on Carbon Monoxide detectors.  

@Kevin Carbon runs a meetup in Lakewood once a month!

There are at least two carbon copy examples in the neighborhood and this seems to be a low complexity project.

@John Carbone the properties on this land, are they single family homes?