I think Section 8 better fits a C Class property so that less damage can occur.

Or you could just increase the security deposit, so rather than speculating that the pets will do more damage than, say, children (and for whom you can't charge extra kid rent, for better or worse), the tenants are only pet penalized if their individual pets actually cause actual damage. 

The only ones I need to keep are ones in a house where there is currently no wall switch and the lights are turned off and on via the fan.Tenants often damage the switches.

Guests are the tenant's responsibility, just as if they had done the damage themselves.

I think taking funds for cleaning or repairing damage is fine, but if the tenant pushes back then you probably need to take their word.

So I just realized that one of my insurers (REI Guard) doesn't cover intentional damage to my properties in Philadelphia,  Apparently - this means that they don't cover arson, at all. 

Due to wind damage by Hurricane Ike , a big investor had already bought about 80% of the wind damaged homes in the small subdivision and was waiting for it to become available....but I got it first.)

I am in a very tough market and have bought and flipped a property here in the San Francisco Bay Area right before the boom that started a couple of years ago and lost money on it because of both bad luck (squatters who caused a lot of damage and accidents).  

If the landlord uses a lease that contains any provision that conflicts with the Security Deposit Law and attempts to enforce that provision or attempts to obtain from you or a prospective tenant a waiver of any provision of the Security Deposit Law, the landlord cannot keep your security deposit for any reason including making deductions for damages.

She could do some real damage to the place.My first idea was to do that magical eviction where you offer like $500 in cash if the tenant is willing to move out in 1-2 days.