The NAHB, bankrate, NAR, etc have been sugar-coating this data for a while. 

I was looking in my couches, old coat pockets, my little brothers piggy bank, and that’s because I was financially in over my head.

Ask yourself, if you had an animal how would your place look.

I certainly recognize that this is the "Cost of doing business" when you allow animals but I have had previous pet owners with little / no issues. 

Put a coat of oil-based polyurethane underneath the counter where the dishwasher goes, the front of where the sink is and the entire cut-out hole for the sink.

Homeowner's insurance is a completely different animal than STR insurance. 

I also know people are so angry thinking about fake ESA animals.

Are all dogs animals?

They are all an animal in its own world, even we can't say "the return of real estate is 7%" because even if we have to use previous historical fact, the return is very different from one asset class to another asset class.If one invest in the hotel syndication in last three years for example, there's 25% chance that all your investment is wiped out to ZERO. 

@Martin Scherer   Thanks,   I have had a few meetings with city planner and it looks like they are moving farily fast there is a developer that has the 50 acres to the south tied up and they are paying all the cost for the independent studies etc so they can get there parcel done and improved.. we are just running on the coat tails.