Condos typically don’t have backyards and can have animal restrictions which make them less appealing to families with young children.

and IMO they should of covered furniture if they were going to saw and make a mess...... 

Or they think if they and their sister inherited the property and the sister passes away so it is then all thiers, when it may very likely go to the sister's children or spouse.Ask questions to see what is going on e.g. did she inherit it all or with her sibling, etc. 

(aside from the countertops which i will be building from solid wood slabs of maple covered in epoxy.) i run a business milling and salvaging trees and building furniture. 3 months is a long time to go without a kitchen and i could only imagine it turned out incredible!

Magic show at a children's birthday party: everyone is watching the right hand because that's where the "magic" happened the last time, but the magician knows that, so the left hand is where the funny business is going on this time around.

So I decided to stage it myself - using a few furniture pieces from our house and my mom's house, and bought some inexpensive table settings, decorations, and rugs to pull it all together.

Most people live in MF and homes are built so that you don't hear neighbors' children, etc within the building.  

I am divorced no children and have lots of free time to be enlightened.

Now if they put an exercise bike in front of the door inside their apartment from time to time that's isn't something I would police but if they put furniture there I ask them to move it. 

I prefer my VRBO guests, because it pays me better, they are older (grandparents, adult children and grandkids) and take better care of the property.