If you walk into a smoking hot deal that is .50 on the dollar, why get a few bucks and sign it away?

For maintenance, my lease says they are responsible for things like yard and snow removal, changing batteries in smoke detectors and furnace filters.

You have a legal obligation, as a bare minimum, to enter to inspect fire/smoke alarms are operational, furnace filters are changed, plumbing is functioning properly etc.     

@Mark Shuter Not to out anybody down, don't get me wrong, there are some great motivational podcasts out there, but like any deal, evaluate everything that has been said, some are smoke and mirrors in a way, some talk only about their experience and applies only locally.

I recently came across a smoking deal offered by a City government.

I have a No Smoking clause in my leases that includes marijuana.  

What challenges would you see in going multi-family C-D class in Cincinnati, that would be different from C-D class in parts of southern or East LA (Boyle Heights, Inglewood, Silver Lake (which is actually very up and up now), Norwalk/ Paramount, etc?

I play above board, and don't do the smoke and mirrors.  

Now the "issue" was they freshly painted the apartment when they showed it to me masking the cigarette smoke smell I was not aware of.

They are mostly looking for working smoke detectors and obvious repairs.