Had the honor of serving as the student body president while there too! 

The issue you will find is showing a cluttered apartment or one that doesnt smell so good, or the tenant has a dog and they have to be home for you to show the apartment.

I'm in Colorado so that's the body of laws I'm familiar with: if someone begins living(3 nights or more) in one of your rooms without a lease, they automatically gain "month-to-month" rights.

I can see such a venture as a re-awakening of my creative mind and body, which is something that has been dormant over the last few years.  

I know places where the squatters would be leaving in body bags.

@Art MaydanIts a good in-person conversation to have so you can judge their body language when you mention a MTM arrangement with a signed lease.

Any agent that wants to back door deal with you in that fashion and doesn't have these "arrangements" disclosed, would be committing a criminal offense if they executed the arms length affidavit without admitting a business relationship to one of the parties to the transaction.Sounds like your radar is working well in that you smell a car salesman.

It probably also did not tell you that several years of filing Schedule C Expenses with no income will almost always trigger an audit or inquiry because this smells like a hobby to the IRS.If you think about it, when you put these expenses on a Schedule C, you converted them from passive expenses to "earned" expenses. 

The State Real Estate Commission is the governmental body that oversees these brokers.

He said the house would smell for a few days but that it was totally safe to inhabit, the stove seemed fine, and he wasn't really sure where they were getting this stuff.The property is in great overall condition, the stove and oven are fine except that the oven seal is broken because they first attempted to pry it open when they noticed fire...