Is just an option/suggestion, not my first choice.My first choice, would be LOC on P3. 

Not that that is bad, just that you pay a LOT more in taxes.

Oh and yep - the more landlords treat tenants badly, the more tenants will fight for more restrictive legislation.

People do bad things.   

If the smoke smell is bad, you should probably wash everything down first, clean the carpets, and then use the ozone generator.These work great on odors from pets, food, or smoke, but it sometimes still requires heavy cleaning first.

Again just a small time saver, or even better if they were automatically pulled from MLS listing and then offered the choice to click on each one we would like included in the report.I'm sure others have ideas as well on how we can make this awesome calculator even awesomer!

I also have a real estate attorney put a second lien on the house to protect me in case everything goes bad, and he tries to avoid his obligation to my investment.Has anyone ever done something like this before, and could you tell me about how it went?

Most of those contractors get slammed with work and instead telling the truth to the customer they choose not to pick up the phone or promise something (because they feel bad) and not follow up...I do flips my self and most of the times I use subs - small subs.

The rest are aesthetics choices that need to be desirable in 5 years.

On to plan "B".As a thought, if your stoop is the size and location you want, but just in bad shape, perhaps having a contractor skim coat it is a low cost solution.