Some causes of an increased water bill.Leaking toilet or faucetsToilet running constantly   (Most often the cause)Family bathes and showers more than someone elseGuests are over using the water  or they are using water more than normalDoing the wash more often or allowing others to come over and do their laundryWashing their cars more often or allowing others to come over and wash their vehiclesDirt and debris stuck in the meter Talk to your tenants about the increase, ask if they have been doing anything out of the ordinary regarding water usage. 

Most people wash out, especially when they don't have enough money saved to support themselves for 6 months to a year.  

Regardless it's just weird to sell a property with new appliances and wash your hands of it.  

Keep going. . .wash, rinse repeat :)

Use the rental income from all three to pay down the HELOC and continue to wash, rinse, repeat. 

If they need constant vehicular access after construction, they will want to go around if possible, if not, and it is light travel, #57 washed stone will work as it will breath and also allow H2O to drain.

None of my rentals include washing machine hook-ups but I am considering changing that.  

I don't think you should run from section 8 is for you live and the people that you went to because I'm on Section 8 and I've been in this building for eight years the people in here treat me like s***  they won't fix anything I pay my rent on time every month never late they charged me a hundred and something dollars for 2 years too much in such an amazing help me then the reason that I found out was because because I trusted them and then I looked at my paperwork and the lady happened to send me a paper telling me how much my rent was and come to find out it was a hundred and something dollars I have been paying them for a whole two years too much I never got all my money back they gave me three months free rent and told me that was all I get and then cuz they moved into a new apartment because I was on the top floor and I need to be moved to a middle floor but they moved me to a bottom floor and the bottom floor BM runs all over the floor  and they gave me a washing machine and dryer that look like it was new but it wasn't the it needed a new plastic thing inside the dryer and in the wash machine and made noise every time you wash it and drive it to dry your clothes three or four times before they even tried and the floor has holes in it up under the rug that has all kinds of things wrong with it it didn't pass inspection six times so you tell me if I'm right or if I'm wrong it's not us all the time it's the manager's we do the best we can with what they give us I'm in this apartment I pay way too much I have maybe $100 left out of my rent I'm disabled have epilepsy I can't work  I have an uncountable seizures I don't know when they're coming and when I get stressed out I have seizures so you tell me I don't know where that juice but I have seizures  but some people do need Section 8 and some people on Section 8 or good and I'm one of them but I got treated bad and this is a well-known apartment building and they were 1800 Ford in Audrey's advisors cheap because I've been here for eight years and the manager name is not good they talked wrong to people he cared about the people that live here and they fixed everything when you need it fixed in the apartment is the old apartment was better than this  so God bless you don't put on everyone on Section 8 if some of the words and he was wrong it's because I'm not typing it in

The alternative is that an annual power wash with a high pressure sprayer will keep them looking good.

The mortar was washed out on the pillars, lintels were rotted, and bricks were missing on the balcony.