I couldn't find any specific laws or regulations regarding pets other than service animals are always allowed.

The film will coat everything in your kitchen and is very difficult to remove.I do rent to smokers, but just have a strict "no inside the property rule".

Just needs a coat of exterior paint. 

HUD is clear that emotionsal support animals are covered and that such animals do not need to be trained. 

No pets(service animals welcomed with certificates).

Around $7500 was for damages done to a small kitchen put in a few years ago (water damages to lower cabinets and uppers coated with a film from smoking mixed with grease from cooking).   

Whether it can "live" on a surface for a certain period of time is quite another animal than whether you can reasonably contract it from the surface. 

Anything with a fresh coat of paint goes in minutes out here.   

I won't sugar coat it - downtown is a mess - but there are so many fabulous neighborhoods and suburbs that are thriving, we're selling a lot of homes and rents are going up and up.

They had nothing materially but there little shacks were very clean and they were proud of them.The fact that many choose to live in conditions worse than animals in SFHs, mobile home parks, or apartments is a personal moral issue that, as a landlord, you try to solve will only lead to frustration and a loss of a lot of money.