Put dried flowers of the area in your rental. 3. make or buy a field guide of the local flora or fauna in the area.

Here's a few things you can do to mitigate this from happening: Hire a house sitter (~100 per week)Ring alarm monitoring system (~20 per month, no internet required)Plant some flowers in the front (imply occupancy)Install dummy or real security cameras (some area even cellular based for live capture)Drill the exterior doors shut As far as theft/vandalism goes, make sure you are insured correctly with a builder's risk policy that covers it. 

got calls from neighbors about parties, kids peeing outside, cops were called...neighbors finally had enough and broke into the house, stealing the tenant's ipod, computer, and car...when i asked her to leave, she had no problems, knowing she trashed the place...however...daddy soon called demanding the deposit back...i don't think he knew what a partygirl his daughter was...the kicker was the next week she moved into an apartment complex and was kicked out for parties as well...long story short..apologized to neighbors and assured them i cared about their community..have a nice family in there now..it's nice driving by to check in and seeing them outside planting flowers or doing something good for the neighborhood!!

Hey everyone,My name is Brent and I'm from Flower Mound, which is between Denton (where UNT is) and Dallas.

“We’re not requiring people to have nice flowers in their front yard,” he said.

Flowers?

There are also flowers that smell like rotting corpses, you should be glad your neighbors aren't growing those.For that matter there is a field across the street from me where they grow 100 acres of a plant I'm severely allergic to.

Can you put a small border of flowers or some taller grasses to soften it up?

They mow the lawn, shovel the snow, plant flowers and take care of minor maintenance.The best that I have ever been able to do was 11% expense ratio. 

Everything in good order but green shag carpet and flower wall-paper, that's my jam!