This tenant was an old, chain-smoking, alcoholic veteran.

You do not want them using to much alcohol ratio.

The fire incident report says that it was oil at the stove that started the fire and added "alcohol / drugs" as a human factor.

My guess is that you're renting your properties by the room to recovering alcoholics or drug users.

In this current climate, I'd probably stick to commercial that's anchored by products people will always need - food, clothing, shelter, insurance and alcohol.

The woman in question has 5 grown children, all raised by another family member - inexplicably, she chose cigarettes, alcohol and homeless bums over her own flesh and blood.

Fair housing laws state:If you or someone associated with you:Have a physical or mental disability (including hearing, mobility and visual impairments, chronic alcoholism, chronic mental illness, AIDS, AIDS Related Complex and mental retardation) that substantially limits one or more major life activitiesHave a record of such a disability orAre regarded as having such a disabilityyour landlord may not:Refuse to let you make reasonable modifications to your dwelling or common use areas, at your expense, if necessary for the disabled person to use the housing.

His point was that you need to be aware of CC&R's because you can sometimes find weird things in them, like, his example, a CC&R against drinking alcohol on the property, if you violate the CC&R by you could lose the property, my question was, well, can't you simply stop drinking on the property, his response was no, the violation has occurred, there is no undoing it.

You don't know if they are alive or dead, have mental capacity or not, incarcerated, drug/alcohol problems or severe mental and emotional problems.

Underage consumption and/or possession of alcohol.3.