Plus dog hair on the couches.

You can NOT avoid the inevitable dreaded Human Hair.

Allowing pets (aka dogs) basically increases your cleaning time from all of the hair, and MAY increase your revenue.

I'm a land investor and typically I buy and sell vacant land to retail buyers, sometimes work directly with home builders, but I'm wondering if we get into a recession type economy if those two buyers will dry up, and if I should pivot to looking to work with land bankers or people who are interested in land banking.  

The vacant half is configured as a large high-end hair salon, the other half is occupied by me.I'm really excited to have my first interested party.

Worst case for me is that the money I dump on it is making me 4.2% (actually a better return than a lot of landlords these days) by saving me 4.2% on my heloc interest expense while I wait.It leaves me with dry powder when the next buying opportunity comes around and since the draw period is 10 years I'm feeling pretty confident that I'll have plenty of dry power ready when the market turns.And in the meantime it allows me to accelerate once again into a free and clear primary barring any unfortunate "too good to pass up" deal that I'll need to ply my wife with flowers  and maybe a little convertible to get her to say yes to.Kind of like a real savings account that's paying me 4.2% while i decide where to use it.  

Besides safety, the maintenance and life of the deck and stairs are compromised because of items sitting on the wood not letting it dry properly and restricting the ability to clean and maintain it.There shall be no use of grills on the wooden deck because it can cause a fire hazard and can damage the wood with grease or ash.

All that to say don't trust an agent, most are gone before the ink dries.

If they leave you high and dry and move out in a week, can you afford to cover the mortgage?

It's going to take a lot of competent sanding and polyurethane application and drying time to get it done.