Cleaning costs are almost a wash as they are passed on to the renter -- unless you don't pass them all along.

Perhaps this is a cultural difference, but it seems I have my arm in a mangle and I'm not even sure its where I want to be washing my clothes :/.And I am having real trouble believing a man would be asked to supply a personal reference from his wife.

This way there will be no way they can fill up a pool, wash cars or use sprinklers etc.

Wash walls , everything. 

Tenant is currently using the garage for storage and laundry (washing machine and dryer are his). 

Nice deal--now go wash, rinse and repeat!

It had a coin op'ed wash room in each building one had a sign on it that said open from 8am to 9pm.

You can expect paint on the hardware, paint peeling off the grease they didn't wash off the cabinets, runs in the paints, and outrageous colors.

Usually aluminum siding with paint that is oxidizing leaves the residue...if it was alum. we'd wash it really well then prime and paint.

For us, it ended up being a wash financially because the cost to bring it back up to livable would've outweighed the rent potential in that particular area.