I spoke with the old owner - said his daughter had a cat but she was working and living 40 min away when they upgraded carpet so the cat has only been home for weekends.I'll remove the carpet but only if this is legitimate and not a ploy. 

At least I would be able to rely on WASH honoring their agreement, rather than trying to change it in the middle of the contract term without any legitimate contractual basis.  

@Corby Goade Both #1 and #2 I have legitimate concerns with for the reasons stated above and feel that these are not identicals. 

Again, I would rather be over-insured than under insured, but there might be some less cumbersome ways to set up a legitimate system for a situation like this with the help of the Airbnb platform.

Only respond to legitimate issues and see if he learns to control himself.2.

A lot of people try to use the LLC to shield their assets and that is the purpose, but generally for legitimate business purposes and not for the pure investment used only for cash flow - those have been pierced by courts and will probably always be open to that. 

If its a legitimate business, you should go for it.

He gets deals for $0 marketing dollars.My upside is mentoring, access to legal docs already vetted by an experienced attorney, the legitimate ability to represent myself as an affiliate of a company with deep experience in these types of deals and the potential to start seeing profits before having to go through the cost and hassle of forming my own LLC or consulting with my own lawyers.

If I'm going to claim an exemption, I'm only planning to do so if it's legitimate.

Major cities have already tried using feral cats to deal with rats and mice and the number of places where that has worked is very close to ZERO.And the other problem is that no legitimate SPCA or rescue is going to give you domesticated cats to leave outside 24/7.