You just need to bring your clothes and groceries, everything else is there."

Some of it we could see was warranted: new tires for their car, clothes for the kids, a nice dinner out for the family, a new TV.

Get some cotton clothes line rope.

I don't really spend money on clothes, I'm pretty minimalist, just the occasional dinner date with the girlfriend.so Total so far I have: $1,824.34/$2,954.79 (~61.74%) Now I would like to put about 15 more percent into a Roth IRA before using my saved money towards potentially more volatile investments, so that would put me at about $700 a month to save for real estate investing.

To meet minimum living expenses (food, housing, clothing, basic transportation, and medical care) in my town of Springfield, MO, you would need around $2,000 / month ($24,000 / year) income. 

For instance when they arrive for the showing have they spent a lot of money on a flashy car, car accessories, clothes, etc.

Neat topic, my day gig.....teaching business and related courses at a small college..lot of fun and even related in many ways to real estate investing (marketing, finance, strategy all apply to the small scale landlord)..plus flexible hours so it works well...so many of us are the part time landlords housing America, changing into work clothes after work (like super heroes of the local rental housing market)

My cleaner says the clothes are coming in a bit dirtier than usual.

Is the clothes dryer electric or gas?

We get an extra $30 - $50 /month rent for providing en-suite laundry (we supply front-load, HE laundry units) - up here where we have real winter, folks will pay a little extra not to have to lug their clothes to a laundromat or {outside} to a common laundry room.