I would hesitate to put something too fancy relative to the competition.

Hello Bigger pocketsBack in 2012 I bought a Duplex in a B or C neighborhoodI did very upscale renovationscentering around fancy kitchen and bath faucetsfloating vanities, water fall faucets, upscale lightinglaminate flooringadding stack washer and dryerand using design styled paint schemes suchas an accent wall.or under cabinet lighting.I was asked to report back after a year or two and here are my resultsout of my two properties that have the extra doo dadsI have had little problem collecting rent.

Without a doubt, places that have dress codes have fewer problems.  

Nothing fancy.

Dressed properly, remained calm, & paid attention to instructions. 

It just seems a bit far fetched.These guys drive their 150K Lamboginis or RR around, selling houses 15, 25 million dollars, buyers from overseas sight unseen, sending a rep to make a cash offer of 18 millions, and the two agents meet at a fancy restaurant sipping margaritas, getting up and calling their buyers, using what seems trivial and rudimentary negotiation tactics, and make 400K of commission with a snap of their fingers.Really?

Not that this is my general attitude, but I am not going out of my way and put a fancy tankless water heater or a high-eff. furnace in, for example.

All the camel jockeys are now driving fancy new cars as their method of transportation.All in all, we had a great time and never realized we were just across the waters from Iran.

This person seemed pleasant, dressed well, had a nice-ish clean car, was polite.

Many calculations surrounding returns are based on fancy financial mathematics and university style formulas, but those of us who are in the trenches know that it is critical to separate two entirely different realities.First there is deployed v. not deployed capital.