To go off my topic for a moment, I worked in wall st asset mgmt, I thought I'd read that with the entry of private equity/asset mgrs to real assets, real estate returns have pretty much converged on stock market returns?

Or you can be a real mean and report him to the state licensing commission for Negligence, violating the agreement and misrepresentation or whatever other BS you can come up with to nail him to the wall.

Update the kitchen countertops; there are very minor chips in the laminate and some of the gaskets around the back wall are missing or old. 2.

Recently, the tenants started complaining of loud noises in the walls and air ducts, stuff being knocked off counters, and chew marks throughout the kitchen. 

Also because the walls are kind of like old-fashioned wood panels that you can’t find today the contractor suggested you could put a moulding like a baseboard to cover up the 4 inch that was cut off.

My rental unit is non smoking, and upon lease termination the whole apartment smells like smoke, as well as dried up nicotine spots all over the walls.

It's a little thin, but once you have a wall that is already that color, repainting is simple regardless. 

His team ran a line into the house and into the wall below.  

There was a crack in the wall on the 2nd floor so I kept looking. 

Abnd gain the freedom of using cash - thats otherwise suck in the walls so to speak.I am very open to learning otherwise - just need to see how and what really is beneficial here.