If upgrading showerheads, toilets, faucets, and/or washing machines would cost you $1000, but save you $15/month over the next 20 years, I'd say it's worth it

I was going to be the vending machine king, apartment complex baron, t-shirt vendor...

I stayed at a competitor's unit where they asked me to put sheets in the washing machine, start the cycle and do a bunch of other pre-check out clean up.

One of the recent 'touches' we are going to add since we have the equipment at our 'day job' is to laminate the front and back covers and use a binding machine (total cost about $150 for them) instead of just stapling things. 

I’m looking at hooking up a washing machine in my house.

@Ashish Acharya, you are a machine! 

This plus the fact that the building is in a rather poor state leads me to believe that the revenue from the HOA fees and coined operated laundry machines may be going in someone's pocket rather than in maintaining the building.

I plan on putting down new rules and cleaning, painting, and buying an o zone machine for when people move out.

She said that’s her cash machine.  

ATM Machine (inside the property or facing the street - street has more foot traffic)4.