It could be steam, dust or water causing them to go off or your tenant is smoking.

Losing steam, but I'm determined not to lose at this "game."

This creates a walled in effect so no steam gets out above the shower curtain.

Appreciation rates are starting to pick up steam again in this area. 

Even Yonkers is picking up steam, I just lost A deal there. 

If you're lucky, it will keep you from wasting your energy getting steamed every time a tenant does something annoying.

I remember not too many years ago in '08-'11 when the whole fix and flip thing started steaming up and folks with limited funds, especially leveraged funds, via hard money lenders were jumping into the fray like a leaky sieve only to be stifled long term turnarounds on the flip side.In the first couple of years, and I'm talking the San Diego Market only, the rapid fire turnaround time on F&F was as fast as 30 days, then 60, then 90 and soon some flips were taking as long as 120-160 DOM before flippers were revisiting their capital and repaying their hard money lenders. 

Delete steam heat and add new forced-air and A/C (have quote).2.

(A couple unusual features I am thinking of are a steam boiler heating system in one home and a well and water softener in another.

This part time agent thing is very interesting to me since i am currently steaming because i havent heard from my agent in a week and hasnt returned my texts.