if your lease clearly states "no smoking allowed on the property" then that's pretty cut and dry and you can more easily enforce that. 

Rent from tenant cuts our mortgage in half.

If you are looking to cut corners to faster and easier pay checks, you are in the wrong business. 

I would look into what you are spending your money on currently and see what you could cut back on.

If you’re fine flipping or have extra money you turn it in to a LTR fir at least a year to cut the taxes in half while hopefully turning a profit to wait. 

The more specific I was, the more clear the available options were and it helped cut through a TON of noise.If you want help, feel free to message me.

I think I could possibly put it back on the market for the price I paid (420k) and let the buyers negotiate me down from there, which I'm willing to do since I cut the lot in half.

The tree guy said he can cut it to a stump without taking down the fence, but to grind the stump would need to remove the fence which I want to try to avoid.

Or if you know people already in a VA loan take over their loan when they PCS and give them a small cut of the rent, they would in effect be your partner on paper, but you'd get the vast majority and any appreciation plus you'd be using their VA benefit. 

This business is fueled by consistent action over a long period of time.