You need to have enough to pay for several repairs per year and to build a reserve to do things like paint and carpet cleaning or floor refinishing.

She owns her own cleaning company and did just get PPP.

Not sure of price, but I assume around $5,000The home was built in '75, overall is in pretty good shape, just needs cleaned up.

I have a new prospective tenant, after reviewing my lease, inform me that he believes I am not allowed to withhold ANY of the deposit for cleaning/ or carpet cleaning.Hes telling me that its wrongful withholding of security deposit.

If they refuse, you will hire an attorney and evict through the court, at which point you will charge them with unpaid rent, cleaning and maintenance, as well as court and attorney fees.

It's a nice little house in a nice neighborhood, we can likely ask $3,000/mo, and I believe we'll have our pick of clean, trustworthy renters (too optimistic!?).

Same is true of carpet cleaning.

I imagined this was for a spouse or family member.Seems like if they already have the account setup and a cleaning crew, that is 99% of it and co-hosting shouldn't pay much  of anything.

We are not interested in doing much more than cleaning, paint, fixtures, landscaping and flooring.

This very morning I had to scrape rat innards off of the carpet.