And keeping tenants long term, no turnover costs, is the way to good income.BTW, one bathroom houses have been considered OSBOLETE (I think this is from the American Society of Archetects) since about 1979.

There will never be a society where everyone works, takes responsibility for their own lives and supports themselves, doesn't get into trouble, etc.

A lot of times being a landlord it is about minimizing your exposure to liability.If a tenant or their guests or kids were to get hurt on the property, you can easily expect yourself in today's society to be involved in an very costly and possibly very long lawsuit.We advise owners not to leave on lawnmowers, ladders, weedeater's, yard equipment, or even cleaning supplies and chemicals.

If the neighbor isn't willing to do something, I would call the Humane Society and file a noise complaint.

We live in a litigious society with waay too many lawyers.

Now, I want to help others within our LL community, but we also know how litigious our society is so I do have some reservations to just give out that info to someone I don't actually know. 

Yes. you. can. if it's your building.We as a society need to do something about the severely mentally ill; Especially the unsympathetic cases.

You can undercut a bit to help drive some traffic but be careful not to get the dregs of society in there who could trash the house.Once you get rolling, things will pickup.

The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.""

Either that or we've become the weakest society on earth.