His rent pays our property taxes, our water and sewer bills and will be paying to replace the windows in three of his rooms come springtime.

Deal shark swimming through the dark cold waters.

While I lived there, I painted all the walls and replaced the water heater.

So I analyse each property individually, looking at major features like roof, heating, cooling, hot water, anything likely to break down really. 

Depending on what you qualify “upstate” as (I’m in the Syracuse area) people are always looking for vacation rentals on the water, primarily Oneida lake and Lake Ontario especially in the summer time

That error is low flow on the water.

Getting a home certified as Healthy clean indoor air and clean water limits your liability too and increases the standard of living for tenants if they're not getting sick from indoor air pollution or lead in the Water they have the most time to work to pay us rent.

I asked her if the bathroom water tasted funny also?

I am thinking of installing a separate meter for electrical and wondering how to split water.

In regards to the damages, I have them sign a separate document that is called a lease addendum wherein I have all the policies spelled out and made them responsible for actual charges of any damages and called out water damage to be reported within 24 hours or they will incur a heavy cost of fixing.