To clarify, there are several things that a landlord (me) would put in the lease regarding when to pay rent, pet policy, military clauses, etc.However, I have a duplex that will soon be rented by two tenants and I want to make sure I have a set of rules for each tenant to abide by to 'keep the peace.' 

I have a philosophical question regarding my upcoming rental purchase:  I would like to rent it as pet and smoke free for obvious reasons. 

Think of VRBO/Homeaway as a funnel and the more boxes checked as people filter you want to be the last one standing (higher occ, pets, hot tub etc..) then see what subscription you need.

My thoughts were to give all of them a chance to renew a lease with me if they can meet the conditions of the new lease, i.e. new deposits for pets, removing dead vehicles, increased rents, etc...

In one condo we have you can't have your trash cans outside, you can only have one pet 40 lbs or less, no sat dish on building.

Apartment is smoke free and pet free.

Now here is what nobody like to hear, Cleveland tenants are somewhat unstable and like to move alot, they also mostly all like to have pit bulls as pets, they will come to look an apt and give you a deposit and then a week later after you took apt off the market, they call you and want deposit back, so you just lost time & money!

INCOME4110 · LAUNDRY INCOME1,126.734115 · LEGAL/EVICTION FEES236.004125 · PET FEE137.724130 · LATE FEES560.004177 · NSF FEE25.00Total 4101 · MISC.

parrot,I've purchased 2 properties in the past year within my self-directed ira.

There could also be legal ramifications and you can be taken advantage of by your tenants, if you do not structure Lease Agreements correctly, segregate deposits such as Security, Damage, Pet, etc.