Today's my 31st birthday and here I am :) I'll be running to Home Depot later and working on associated repair project this weekend as well.

If Aunt Sally gave you $50 for your birthday and you deposited that money you would need to confirm where that money came from. 

Any recommendations of a landscaper (or gardener) who can do some light flower planting?

Killeen and Waco, Texas are much better cash flowers but I'm figuring out the line of how getto do I want to go. 

Tenants like a yard, but they don't like to/won't take care of hedges/shrubs/flowers, so you'll end up with the clean-up on turnover.  

But I ended up with "young people" in their 20s traveling or renting for their "birthdays".   

If a rental the building inspector will reinspect every year to verify it is safe (At their whim, smoke detectors, handrails, step height a little high this year, crack in cement, flowers don't jive with the neighborhood "aesthetic". 

I also have a brother in the North Dallas area (Flower Mound) and he has several duplexes close by.  

I am specifically looking at Little Flower and Emerson Heights for myself, but would love to hear from any East Side or Near East Side investors regarding their general experiences in the area. 

I would take it off, maybe put a flower box there, or nothing at all.