We don't want to put a ton of money in right away on cosmetic stuff, so rather than pull up the serviceable but dirty carpet for replacement, or refinishing the hardwoods, we're hoping to just give the carpets a good machine cleaning. 

Then we sold the washer to the incoming tenants when we were moving out :)I have one set of coin operated machines in in the common area of a multifamily house, if they break I am just going to replace them with regular machines and increase rents a little to cover it when the leases renew since they will use it more if they don't have to pay for it.

There was a podcast not so long ago about a guy who spends about 5 hours a week on his wholesale machine - mind you that was after years of running is successfully and building a system behind it.

If buying a cash flow machine was easy, everyone would be doing it. 6) Everything above is about the City of Atlanta.

With modern front-load machines they are able to wash and dry all the linens in time. 

There is no reason you can't earn enough to pay cash for that Bend property (then it will be a cash flowing machine and you can also afford to buy a second home there (with cash).CONSISTENCY IN EVERYTHING AND FOCUS

Your local box store will loan you a machine at no charge to install!

@Avel Arci The only way I know to get positive cash flow on a Bay Area property today is to invent a time machine and go back 7 or 8 years ago and buy.

Low volume HE washing machine, if you have a water hog washing machine they are doing low volume loads with lots of water.

I am currently employed as a senior sales engineer, and my job is to program and sell capital equipment within the industrial automation and manufacturing sector (I figure out ways to reduce labor costs in factories by replacing people with machines.