They must have deep fried every meal and then never cleaned up from it.

Find out if this is so or if he's just plain irresponsible and is pulling your chain because you're a newbie landlord.

Since you are in the chain of lakes area, and since the hot summer season is so brief, and since the population of the lakes area is way higher in the summer than during the rest of the year, you have unique problems for a unique area.  

I think they are doing the right thing.I also think that someone who is moving up the food chain like that will be a better guardian of my property, than the aforementioned 45 year old man who is still renting.We had a young couple last month, viewed a couple of our properties, liked one in particular, but my wife told them straight - they need to buy a house, we can recommend a realtor and mortgage specialist.

It isn't worth the hassle and obviously they are bottom of the food chain when rating quality of tenants.

This 3BR house has only been vacant ten days and a lady looked at it and said she will sign the lease if A-- we paint the kitchen a different color, and B-- if we let her put up a chain link fence around the back yard at her own expense.How does this sound to you guys?

@Catherine Decker - I'd check with an actual lawyer before doing anything, but my gut instinct if they refused to respect my vacant property would be to escalate it by giving them written notice and tossing a chain link fence up around the perimeter. 

If you choose you can text them or email to give them a reminder your coming,  but, expect to find security chain on if they don't let you enter.

As far as renting to an LLC, if you are going to get sued for something, they'll follow the chain of ownership up to you, so I don't see that working, in my opinion.

large corporations have kickbacks, grocery chains have slotting fees, government officials are corrupted, creative accounting, area 51, the list goes on and on.