If someone was willing to rent to you with 5 dogs and the stray and her babies are short term, they may not have a problem. 

Search youtube, "Multifamily owner and baby boomer sells 18 units and uses a deferred sales trust instead of 1031" to here more details.

Baby bonds. 

And for the record there is a HUGE difference in the amount of odor in a unit from 3rd hand smoke which is what carries in in your person when you smoke like clothes smell and breathe smell vs the smell you get when there’s actually smoking in the unit.

Go to Omaha and Sioux city tomorrow for inspections and client meets. 3. close new loan with my bank unsecured ( those babys can be tough to get).4. get my mind ready for 9 grandkids at the house this is the toughest one :)  Patience 5. firm up goals for 25 solidify my new clients that I have gotten in Q 4 24.

And of course, there’s some  wolves in sheep clothing that are prevalent in our World today.

So most agents are only putting about half of that $12k in their pocket, and out of that $6k they have to cover all of their operating expenses: licensing fees, MLS/ Realtor Association fees, continuing education classes to stay compliant with licensing requirements, monthly "desk" fees/ technology fees to their brokerage, health insurance for themselves and their family, errors and omissions insurance (required), marketing, car, car insurance, gas, clothes, computer/ software, cell phone, closing gifts, signs, photography, staging if they offer that, etc.

The tenant base is generally 95% single women with 2 to 5 kids and they flat destroy houses, Not on purpose  most of the time but if you have children all below 10 years old they are just brutual on houses even in the best of situations of which single parent with multiple baby daddys is not the best of circumstances.. full stop.

This is truly the only way out, build baby build!

That might be especially attractive to folks who want to shed the clothes they wear at work to keep their living space more clean.