The problem is the house was built in 1905 and the floors are VERY uneven.

The only thing I can suggest is to go and have a sit down with a couple of different management companies that specialize in managing vacation rentals and gather some information from them.There are a lot of vacation rentals in my area, but oddly, even though I know a lot of people active in several different areas of real estate, I don't know anyone who has vacation rentals (except for one friend with a B&B, and that's not really the same thing).The only thing I know about vacation rentals is that they are extemely management intensive and the management companies charge a substantial fee.You have turn over every week, and someone has to be there to clean, repair, asses damage, and inventory all the household items.

I for one am perfectly happy with painting old cupboards and putting a few good coats of wax on a wood floor, instead of refinishing it.

It is a 3rd floor, 1 bedroom.

Clean the areas that you can with TSP and a good stiff brush, then spray it on ...often two coats.

What about kitchen flooring?

The trouble is that dog urine soaks down through the carpet, into the pad, and into the floor.

Really nice 6 inch hardwood trim throughout the house with oak hardwood floors in every room, but the kitchen.

one row on floor front of tub, one row tub UP on walls or tile, cover toilet. drop cloth vanity and remmainder or floor where exposed after papering.

If a tenant moves out of a property after his lease was completed and the landlord refused to return the full security deposit due to "dusting and cleaning of the apartment" is it possible for the tenant to file a mechanics lein on the property for the remainder of deposit?