They can't work, but they can smoke and drink and party and travel out of state to a friend's wedding, and keep the cell phone and wireless service going to post selfies on Instagram and Facebook. 

Frankly, smoking is more of a cleaning issue that a pet that has been cared for.Sorry for the blog in the forums, but this animal pound issues has come up several times.

And to think that others will just let this go by, and let there life savings go up in smoke like me. 

Provide a safe and clean space for tenants, take pics when you install (every 10 years) or change batteries on smoke/carbon detectors, have them sign off on a movein doc that says windows open, smoke detectors, test.

@Erin Spradlin I have no regrets having invested in my STR in the Smoky Mountains some 4 years ago and I’m actually now dealing with our 2nd natural disaster in the area with my first being the horrible wildfires a few years ago in the area that squashed almost all of a holiday season with significant expenditure on smoke damage.

Weed out 99% of them by immediately requesting a conference call on Skype where you see them on video.Scammers tend to hide behind a keyboard with smoke and mirrors.Legitimate mortgage brokers or lenders have no problem getting paid their fee when it closes.If a lender tells you everything is fine etc. when submitting your deal then run.

The majority of the odor was in the attic since the smoke rises. 

Any successful guru whose brand is his ability to come up with novel ways of doing things and is confident enough that his method is worth your time would probably rather make a ton more money by throwing out all the bells and whistles and smoke screens and lay out a simple marketing plan that offers a brief overview of the system, including the niche is serves and the type of properties you'll be finding in order to use the system.  

Holy smokes!

Well, I've been living in this house for quite a year now, and the Landlord is always being disrespectful with us and always taking too much to fix things in this 10 years old house that is falling in peaces , last week our a.c broke, it wasn't getting cold, so we asked him and only 4 days later someone came to "help", and the a.c. was working again for 2 days, and then it got it broke (the air made an explosion sound and there was smoke coming out of my son's bedroom air ventilation) so we turned the a.c. off and open the windows so the burning smell would go away and then we called the Landlord and told him about what happened and that we need it him to call  someone to fix it or something, anything.