They have people steeling tires off the cars, gunshots in the middle of the night, but SW ATL gets the crime badge.  

The only difference these days is that the modular vinyl windows can be bought preassembled with gas sealed between glass panes and slotted into existing window openings.Whatever you do, Andy, good luck in your business.

If you are looking at higher end looking appliances you can always go with stainless steel front appliances, it will save you a bit of money but still give you a more upscale feel. 

For anything that's an emergency, myself or one of my representatives will make all arrangements and meet with the contractors at the home, and under those circumstances we generally dictate the terms directly to the tenant (i.e. there's no heat and the HVAC guy has one slot open this afternoon, that's when we are going to be there regardless of convenience). 

They even pick on the stainless steel refrigerator bought in 2013, trying to say a larger model is needed. 

As part of the contract, I stated tenants had to be gone (non issue), stainless steel appliances stay, yard debris needed to be cleared out (looked like Sanford and son...).Tenants moved out and destroyed the place.

How they look is more important, they need to match each other in color, and obviously stainless steel is 'in' right now.The only exception would be if this is a high-end area where all your competition is using GE.

As one example, I'm using empty steel barrels to support my vanities, I'll have exposed ductwork and electrical conduit, and I'm just using a clear coat epoxy over the existing container floors. 

If you are out of fannie/freddie slots and only have a few properties that you haven't refinanced yet, why not roll the remaining properties into a blanket and cash out to max LTV. 

Our population was just so high back in the days when the steel mills were running that we are in a transition period of those people getting old and dying off.