They can publish a 100 page cleaning guide if you want to, but nobody is going to change their cleaning practices.

If you can do both, and the tenant has income over the poverty level, you MAY be able to garnish wages or otherwise attach their income.

The metrics thrown around here and other places should guide you but aren't hard rules.

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Trust your gut too on anything that doesn't look right, i.e. cracks in stucco.Once you know how to scope, estimating is no more complicated than multiplication with a unit price reference guide like Hometech, Walker, or Xactimate to guide you. 

Here is a good reference guide to rent control rules in DC: https://dhcd.dc.gov/service/rent-control

Start by reading the Ultimate Real Estate Investing Guide: https://www.biggerpockets.com/guides/ultimate-real-estate-investing-guide/introduction 2.

Hopefully you could help me or guide me in the right direction.I found a great rental property to invest in.

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