For a long term play, if you plant a few plant guilds that sustain one another (a la 3 sisters), especially if they're something nice like fruit trees or flowering trees, I feel like you would attract better tenants/buyers and at the very least set your self apart from your competition since all properties being equal of course I would chose to move into the property that yields free food. 

I remember the best years ago when my father was teaching me all about rental real estate in Australia.It was not unusual to had several European generations living in a home & they often collected a substantial amount of urine to boost the soils deficient in N, K & P under the fruit trees we had on the properties.

They worked tirelessly and never stopped to enjoy the fruits of their labor.

Many more factors go into this equation, but the point is it just depends on the deal and whatI need to see in that deal for it to make sense, and how much heavy lifting will be required, is the juice worth the squeeze :)

I wont tell you what we do to them since you don't have the heart to kill it.I would get a live trap with some fruit or something inside.

There is much more low-hanging fruit to pick.

Put grape juice in a barrel for a few months, and suddenly it's yummy wine, because you've "seasoned" the grape juice into wine.3) HELOCs require equity.

It takes awhile for some of your efforts to bear fruit.

4 months of financials leads me to believe he juiced up the rent, I would not rely on any of the month to month tenants. underwrite long terms income only.

The ones that stick with it and have a fruitful career as an agent tend to have similar qualities.First, they have financial backup from the start.