Since you violated your own lease agreement by allowing them to have a pet you have placed yourself in a difficult legal position regarding preventing them from having additional dogs.

If these are removed, keep the base (which often cannot be seen from the ground) and perhaps seal around it to prevent roof leaks. 

The prospect of steady work may be enough to prevent being talked down to, but if not, fire them.

@Dave Van Horn and @Jerry W. we are looking at an opt-in (or out) system to prevent your being inundated.

Your loss would have to be pretty high, so in the case of A/C, you may want to try prevention and cage it instead.  

And tell them not to put the carpet back down without either a dedicated vapor barrier under the carpet (i.e. a piece of plastic sheeting if nothing else) or something to leave an air channel to prevent moisture from building up. 

My understanding (the way it was explained to me), is that the law was changed to prevent slumlords (not saying you are at all) from hiding behind a corporate name and PO Box.  

@jdmartin is right about first taking measures to prevent rodents from getting access inside.

We will be receiving our first 5,000 units in February.Our focus is on remote monitoring of the homes ‘Vitals’ preventing and minimizing damage from water, mold, temperature.

Does anyone know if Tenant Cloud has the ability to prevent partial payments and how?