Once you narrow down the area, spend more time hanging out around it (lunch, dinner, walks...). 

I have property in san jose.The washer stopped working. We sent a repairman within a few days. Repair guy diagnosed said have to replace washer. The next day renter mentioned fridge stopped worked. Had to send repairm...

Some friends of ours were over for Easter dinner, and they have a bunch of rentals as well.

In my case, at the end of their lease when I wanted to show the property to prospective long term tenants, the tenant gave me all kinds of grief about 'invading her privacy' and 'disrupting her life' even though I told her at the beginning of the lease that this was our procedure and I made every attempt to 1) give 48 hr lead times, when typically I would only give 24, and 2) blocked/scheduled showings for 1 day per week and 1 weekend day away from dinner time/church times, etc. maybe this was just the person I was dealing with though...- vet the tenant exactly as you would for a normal tenant.

Eat frigging crab-legs for breakfast dinner and lunch?

p16  "Salzano used this money, much of which was traceable to Fund investors, for an array of lavish personal expenses, including erectile dysfunction medications, expensive dinners, extravagant birthday parties, and payments to Individual-4 (Salzano’s wife), Individual-5 (with whom Salzano had a romantic relationship), and Individual-7 (Salzano’s ex-wife), none of whom worked at NRIA in any capacity."

On top of everything above- keep in mind that with every "head in bed" you need to scale up the number of seats at the dinner table, space/seats living room, towels, plates etc etc.

Geese wandered the site only to be made into dinner & exquisite Foie gras at a later date.In & around Pula Yugoslavia their 'vikendica' (cottages) were also escapes from the inner city & again the kitchens were predominantly outside.

After basically getting sucker punched all day we picked ourselves up over dinner and a beer and made plans for the next day to turn this arround.

It appears to do this through tele-marketed free dinner seminars.