I have spent many days fixing leaking toilets, repairing damage done by tenants, and evicting tenants - that's the reality of the rental property business.If I thought it was more profitable and would provide a better lifestyle, I would start a hardware store, a janitorial business, a portable toilet business, etc.

I have gone to about four or five other people and each time it does not pan out.

Gottadoadealitis is a very bad brain fever that causes smart people to take thousands of their hard earned dollars and promptly flush them down the toilet.

I videotape cabinet doors/drawers opening and closing, toilet flushing, faucets on and off, light switch on/off, doors opening/closing, walls, ceiling, light fixtures, flooring, exteriors, front/back yards, front door, garage, Tenant's automobile(s) including license plates, etc.

Toilet $200 (nice toilet)Vanity $400Top $150Faucet $1002 piece shower/tub unit $300Faucet for shower $150Flooring Vinyl $1/sqft1/4" flooring .50/sqftDrywall for around the shower $70Material for framing $50Plumbing material $300-$400All in all you could redo a bathroom, without doing your own work for roughly $3000 if you are smart about it.

if not - see about submeteroring, increasing rents and going from there.SFH rentals are good though if you are a good landlord and not a scumbag who lets the properties go to the toilet.

This varies from drip pans, CO and smoke alarms.

We will finish removing the cabinets and toilets from the bathrooms this week.

If not just compose one based on your observations and hope that the former tenant accedes to it, some will, some won't.I used to have a room-by-room checklist which noted some of the following:Condition of walls and paintCondition of carpetCondition of doors and doorknobsCondition of ceilingCondition of light fixture and the bulb worksCondition of toilet, sink and tub in bathsCondition of stove, oven sink, garbage disposal and dishwasher in kitchenCondition of grass and shrubs.On the move out version I had a list of amounts that I was deducting, including but not limited to:Missing door stop (the move in one showed that there was one for EVERY door) $5.00Hole in wall from doorknob going through it (somehow in my 60 years on earth I've never destroyed a door stop or knocked a doorknob through a wall, but it's not hard to tenants) $75.Pooper scooping the yard $5.00 per pile.

People eat that stuff up, and you never have to deal with "toilets and tenants" again.