Wear a nice sport coat and dress up do you don't look like a homeless person or a guy from a real estate club. 

As a business" changes things, when you have no intent or ability to follow the contract as the principal buyer and you assign to another buyer AND you do so repeatedly, over and over, that is when you can be considered brokering without a license, it has become a different animal like a mule to a donkey. 

Sounds like high maintenance.Explain that you can an enamel coated tub, likely every other rental also has an enamel coated tub, and they can watch what products they are using, chose to shower instead, or if those options don't work for them, you can let them out of their lease.I would not have offered to reglaze a tub that was in good condition.

This was the reason we first got into caves from trees, made fire, wore skins of animals, and fought wars.  

Skim coat the horrible textured wall.   

Just a slight twist on the emotional support animal (ESA) question.

I have a couple pairs of insulated pliers that just have a coating on the handle.

At the beginning of RE investing you're going to work your *** off, no easy way to sugar coat it.

I think Brooklyn Park is a different animal than Brooklyn (across the county line) How did this work for you? 

I don't say that to sound ominous, it's just a friendly reminder that even some very qualified tenants might let you know 2 months into the lease that they now have 2 pit bill "emotional support animals" that you can't do anything about.