A mentor of mine told me that if you provide snow removal and your tenant or a guest slips and is injured, you are liable since it was your responsibility to keep walkways free of ice and snow. 

I would only treat it as icing.

Appreciation is icing on the investment cake.

Appreciation in price and rent over long term - are icings :)Also that when I do rough numbers, I only look further if a property is about 1% (in Raleigh area), and that it roughly gives CAP rate of over 8% on conservative number.

This is the ice breaker as a new landlord/owner.

Broadway shows, baseball, football, hockey, beaches, etc.

Then, when you hopefully are able to raise rents (never guaranteed to work) that is just icing on the cake! 

My wife and I recently purchased a 3-family property in Elizabeth, NJ (Elizabethport) and we are having a difficult time securing snow removal services throughout the winter. Most of the companies will not contract wi...

Appreciation really should just be icing on the cake of a good deal.

It was needed or we would need a whole new road, removing the old and new pavement at 3 times the cost after this winter's snow and ice.