Tenants pay for all pest services except wood eating.

In the beginning, they tried their best to get us to pay for some small things like refrigerator water filters and pest control.

Once we gave him notice, he started playing music loudly and just became a general pest.

(yes, there is a cockroach infestation in the building as well.

That lease says nothing about pest infestation.I recently had an otherwise ideal tenant contact me about bed bugs in their rental.

Does your lease specify the tenant is responsible for all pest control?

Case in point, allowed a dog and after she moves out, we have a MAJOR flea infestation.  

You're scratching your head wondering what happened, sending out pest control people and maintenance men, etc. - when the real issue is the tenant just wants to beak the lease.So, let them.  

Otherwise, they'll start complaining about any of the things that can legally allow them to break a lease, and it will be a headache for you, sending out pest control people to see the ghost cockroaches, or test for mold, etc.So, if it was me, and since renting in the summer probably isn't a problem in PA, I'd probably tell him the law - that I don't have to let him out of the lease.  

Tenants need to do some basic maintenance and upkeep themselves in SFR, in multis they generally rely on the landlord for everything.We have not seen a difference in default with our duplexes, and generally turnovers and damages are better, but we do have more day to day managing of duplexes - more maintenance, more neighbor issues (including a detailed conversation about a neighbors sex life on the other side of the shared wall), pests (much more difficult to say it is tenant caused in a multi), pet issues, lawn care.We do not have different criteria for our properties, but we score each application on a point system, and the multi's require fewer points to qualify. , because they attract a lower quality tenant.