You should know who is looking for carpet and paint flips and who loves doing full gut jobs.

Then it would be considered fraud.The only report I would need to pay for would be a back ground check to make sure there wasn't anything criminal in their history.Generally, I have found that if someone has a very high credit (720+ FICO), and in Brooklyn, NYC, you will certainly need high credit for any apt, you have a very clean background check.Given that and income has to be 4 times Annual Rent qualified from their Pay Stubs or W2 or both and verification from their employers, it's really difficult to get better quality of verification even from Companies that charge more than $20 for all of this information.Also, I don't blame Cuomo for these things.

  $15k isn't much - kitchen cabinets, paint, carpet, maybe a few things to bring the property to code. 

I put our used winter boot plastic trays under the cabinets & that also catches all the other spillages they have with their cleaning supplies. 

It is a 14x66 - 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom home with a 12x18 3 season porch.This home is extremely clean.

If it has that slimy feel, notice her as an issue and either she cleans it and they stop vaping, or you have it cleaned and bill her and ban the guy.

(Regarding repairs) For instance, carpet in a rental seems to last 5 to 7 years (HUD says 5 years) so 10 year old carpet at move out with pet damage should be fully depreciated and if it needs replacing due to pet damage that would probably be on you. 1 year old carpet on move out with pet damage 20% used up on you, 80% resident replacement cost. 

(that was the family of 6) They completely destroyed the carpet and walls in the spare rooms.

With clean out (it was a hoarder house), carrying costs, and the high end kitchen cabinets and counters I bought for dirt cheap, I already have $46k in it. 

Put him to cleaning out the ditches and finishing up the meter pole hole.