Or try to cook indoors with portable a BBQ or camping stove, also a fire hazard.  

Use the best kilz oil based paint and don't scrimp on riping out walls or flooring or oil based kilz. 

Green is expensive and oil is cheep.

Followed by liberal portions of Kilz oil based sealer.   

I'm much less likely to be surprised that my tenants are growing pot or cooking meth if I'm in the home every month and they don't know when I'll be there.

only thing on their plates is putting lockboxs on doors and showing units, payments of owners with a few clicks of a mouse, and the random eviction down at the court house (Some older PM's wont even do the court thing).One agent now of days can run 200 SFH units no problem, if the operation is a well oiled machine, it's a part-time job - A good PM company knows this and have been adjusting their operation to reflect the times in their pricing.Luckily for me, my operation has gotten to the point, that I just built my own PM company and hired my own agents to manage my stuff so I could reduce the cost even further, but that don't mean I don't know my operating cost down at my own PM firm.

For my residence, Corian is what I like because we really cook. 

@Hollis Cook You can get a owner-occupied mortgage for around the number you quoted, 3.44%, that is a conventional loan.

If you buy the cat urging house make sure you budget for many gallons of OIL BASED kilz.

For them, tenant turnover is just a fact of life, an inevitability in their well-oiled real estate machine.