A title company will assure the property is transferred without any liens, etc by doing a title search, so you get a clean title.

I find that Tenants want to live in a house or especially apartment and not do a thing to clean and maintain the place, until it is so dirty that they can't stand living there and then just move.

The other tenant is outstanding, he wants to stay, the place is clean, in good condition and we are told he always pays on time.The property will cash flow at current rents, but the plan is to rehab the first unit to get it to market rate and raise the rent on the other unit.

With Adair Park on the west and Grand Park on the east, I feel it is only a matter of time before these ones in the middle to be cleaned up.

The property rented under a two-year lease for $900 a month.The property inspection turned up pretty clean, just a few items like pushing insulation back into place or removing some pending inspection/certification labels.  

I have a rental property in Costa Mesa, CA and a tenant claimed that after she cleaned, her carpeted floors in her room were wet and she was worried about mold being under the carpet and in the walls.

It's Your property you make the rules.Send a notice of lease violation regarding additional tenants.Send notice that they need to clean the house.Do follow up inspection, if not cleaned properly hire a cleaning service and bill the tenants.Send out notice to cure on the second of the month if rent is not paid.Inspect your property quarterly.Charge tenants for repairs following inspections. 

So set a ton of them and clean up everything around the exterior of the house.  

The typical PM is motivated to fill vacancies - - period - - and that's a real problem which you have already discovered for yourself.Contracts for PMs are written to their benefit and typically there's tons of 'extra fees', like move-out, move-in, cleaning and even showing, so read all the fine print.

But in general I think what drives me most to this category is I enjoy making a rental unit that is modern, clean and would be enjoyable for myself (even if it has vinyl plank flooring).