I also own a multi-million dollar IT Staffing firm, a Hunting Outfit in AZ and a Antler Dog Chew Company :) Would love to chat!

Smoking any cigarettes, a cigar, or pipe, or using snuff or chewing tobacco?

In fact, it's better for me and all the existing low-cost high-return investors if the big-pocket OOS investors don't try to pursue this and chew up all the inventory. 

If you are going to allow pets I would recommend a pet deposit just in case they chew your countertop, scratch through a wall or window, and etc.Respect your tenants rights and know your rights. 

A dirty file will be chewed up and spit out in minutes on a predictive dialer.3.

For example, after realtor fees, mortgage payments/holding costs, etc. by closing time, a chunk of my equity could easily be chewed up.

But after we had tenants whose various dogs ate my porch swing, the plug off a window air conditioner (haven't a clue why the dog didn't fry himself on that one), dug holes in carpets down to the subfloor, ate the bottom off a closet door, chewed open a door and got under the house in the summer heat to stay cool and crushed a duct pipe and (in one case) were kept under the house so I got to clean feces and urine out from under there on my hands and knees....we rethought our  idea of the need for a pet fee.Gail

To wit: We had to teach a local that we didn't consider it OK to chew on twigs and spit them out while in a motor vehicle that you do not own (chewing on twigs from a particular plant being the local equivalent of brushing one's teeth).

Some real life data to chew on:We purchased SFR's in the Bay Area (Marin) and in Sacto area (Central Davis - Yolo County) within several months of each other in 2011-2012.