fully agree. we invite you to the city of Berwyn, IL. you bought a foreclosure on our turf we will make the process "easy"all BX must be gone - does not matter if all walls are exposed or notall cloth wiring must be goneall basement on single switcharc fault on every bedroomfan rated boxes. ground rodgrounding to the water meterput new outlets here and there ...and more more fun stuffwe will make you add so much new stuff that your panel needs to be replaced as you will run out of space.

these bastards are resilient, and even if you kill them, there's babies in the walls, meaning i'll have to kill another generation of them...hoping you guys might know a 'little known' trick or something..any ideas??

They latch onto someones clothes and get carried over to the next home.

I'm ready to take my first baby step. 

Leather is OK, but I like quality cloth for hotter climates.

Does this vehicle look like a home on wheels, with garbage bags filled with clothes, a crying baby and a cat in the back window?

It might have been that they were trying to avoid bankruptcy or foreclosure, they had a baby on the way, a relative got sick etc.

And their hair, clothes, etc, smell so if you rent furnished, the bed/couch/carpet starts to smell like smoke, anyway.

That sounds like you are a bit stuck in "traditional" thinking, and I want to disrupt that before you throw the baby out with the bath water. 

Even if they don't smoke inside or outside the property, the odor of smoke in their clothing gets inside and permeates the place.