Say a landlord puts, "Smoking in the unit is a loss of security deposit/or (insert arbitrary amount here)" in the lease or stipulate to ANY such fixed amounts in a lease.

Rick,Middle is good ... a wonderful place to put an insert/mosaic.   

4)Does the % ownership of the property have to be equal to the capital insertion if there was going to be an additional owner on title?

Revise the existing lease, cross out the PM's name, insert yours, and you and tenant initial.

When people complain, "(insert program name here) doesn't work", is it because the program didn't work or because they didn't work the program?

As with all leading property portals,the name of the game is "traffic" in order gain sales.They may give you exposure,but just like amazon product pages,you'll not differ from your competitors,if you just pay the insertion fee,sit back and wait.Your insertion is no more that a web page,as such,web pages require seo/smm in order to gain traffic /sales.

warranties with our type of business tend to run 1-5 years, mines usually 5 but 2 if theres repairs like this.An insert.

Pulling money out of our current home is not an option [insert sad face] because we own it due to my wife being the primary bread winner and, at least at this point, support for RE dreams is tenuous.So, I have two 401Ks that I'm thinking may be a possible source of funds. 

Yeah it is really her gig, but if she has no money.... insert money turnip analogy.

It used to have a wood burning fireplace but someone converted it to a gas insert.