Even though our tenants are generally fairly clean, I don't want a prospective tenant to see the occasional dirty dishes, pile of toys, etc., and think that we don't care how a tenant maintains the unit.

@Sundeep AminMaybe I am too conservative, but the idea of renting and then subletting as a vacation rental seems full of issues, the first of which is profitability.If you try to do a long term rental on a furnished place, then you have to turn around and do short term rentals to make enough additional margin to make it worth while and typically, the zoning will not allow you to do that, as most residential areas (or condo HOA by laws) do not allow rentals of less than 30 days.If you decide to rent unfurnished, it can easily cost 10K to 20K to furnish the house, and while you can move the furniture and dishes from house to house, the furnished versus unfurnished premium is usually 500 to 1000 a month, so it could take a year just to break even on furnishing.

We removed ourselves from the property for the weekend, set the foggers on all levels of the home, then came back three days later, opened all the windows and doors, and then proceeded to wash all our dishes (not required, but our paranoia).  

The Koreatown market has really picked up and we are thankful as a Koreatown based company not to mention most of my agents speak Korean and grew up in the community which helps very much when breaking the ice with local owners.  

I've considered asking her to re-issue me a W-2 but in all honesty, I'd worry about my job security if my employer all of the sudden had to dish out another 500-800 dollars in taxes because I wasn't claiming tips all year and all of the sudden want to.

I've heard stories that customers wash dishes if unable to pay their resturant tab.

I stay onto my wife all the time about leaving chunks in the dishes.

If you don't want to dish out the money for 101, try the CI Intro course.

Just got a new tenant in my rental and he went ahead and got a dish satellite installed (without my consent but I'm not making a big fuss about this).

I bought a dining room set, dishes, kitchen table set, glasses, candles, chair, table, some lamps, area rug etc. in the past.Just did a big rehab and decided to hire a professional stager/designer and she rented furniture for a 4 bedroom house.