They agreed as they too could still smell the smoke.I washed the fans had the place painted and the carpet cleaned washed down the wood doors and base boards to no avail all before the ozone.I found a product called Vamoose on Amazon for $35-40 that was a gallon container.

But as a landlord you have to wait for your money unless you do some type of room and board plan like the schools.  

We removed the seriously charred material, and because smoke is greasy, I hired a fire damage cleaning company, that has lime green trucks, to come in and scrub down the plaster walls, ceilings, and floors, Of course any and all fibrous material such as carpets , and cork boards in the kitchen and kids rooms had been removed and disposed of .

I think you are setting yourself up for a lot of heartache, unless you want to run a boarding house and not consider it "your home".

The block this property is in, has quite a few boarded up townhomes.

It sounds like if we start increasing rents and or deposits based on the tenants qualification we need to have a clear criteria documented on how we established the increase and keep it consistent for all applicants across the board.

I usually skip the underlayment with laminate and skip the cement board with tile as well for additional savings.

I still don't think underlayment matters much except maybe over concrete because of moisture and I'll put tile over plywood all day long unless it feels bouncy then chances are it will crack without more plywood.My thought is it says I can put it over plywood on the bag of modified thinset so if the floor is solid then why spend the extra time and money on cement board if I'm using 0.49/sqft tile anyway and doing it myself

It's a thin grey line but my opinion is be over-above board and get sellers to sign off to that fact in writing.  

I attended one of his classes offered at the board of realtors.