Given I have been laid off twice in the past 4 years, I'm looking to clean up some debt so I'm not quite so close to the edge of financial ruin. 

Place needs minor clean up work and house needs a little work too (mostly paint, wood floors re sanded and clear coated things like that pool needs new linear) all minor stuff house is livable though.

now thats consistent. i mean yea why show a buyer 100 homes only for them to decide to walk away then sneak back a bit later and buy one of them directly to 'save' on the sale price's depletion whether by seller and/or buyer commission?

@Evan Manship all good points above and I agree.I would, however, do a quick pre-hab and clean up the property exterior, be sure the interior is clean and safe [maybe even rough patch some drywall holes?].

Yes, I'm an animal lover, I don't let that get in the way of my business relationships, I take advantage of the opportunity of charging more for some pets that will actually contribute to any additional wear and tear or clean up when the unit is vacated.

Hard to deal with you bet, crime scene clean up, damages to building, damages to reputation of community.  

And almost a year later, I am still having to have people come by and clean up issues and messes he made. 

I can then just hop in and run reports I need and clean up anything she has questions on.

What we're afraid of is she'll abandon her duties to clean up the grow facility and it will take a considerable amount of time to fix it up ourselves.  

My wife worried that they would live slovenly and only clean up for inspections but I figure that if they care enough to clean for inspection then they probably are not trashing the place that badly.